Corinne Trang

Author • Consultant • Spokesperson

About Corinne Trang

Corinne Trang is a New York-based award-winning author who has written for such distinguished publications as Food & Wine, Health, Cooking Light, and Saveur, where she held the positions of test kitchen director and producing editor from 1996 to 1998.

Her first cookbook, Authentic Vietnamese Cooking (Simon & Schuster, 1999) won Best Asian Cuisine Book in the World and Best Book on Asian Cuisine in English at France’s Salon International du Livre Gourmand (The 2000 World Cookbook Fair). It was also awarded Best of the Best of 1999 by Food & Wine magazine. Her second book, Essentials of Asian Cuisine (Simon & Schuster, Feb. 2003), which covers Chinese cuisine and its influence on the major cuisines of Asia including Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, has already received much praise from the press including starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Cook’s Illustrated. Since then she’s published The Asian Grill (Chronicle Books, 2006), A Food Lover’s Companion: Vietnamese (Mark & Spencer, 2007), and the recently published Noodles Every Day (Chronicle Books, 2009). In addition to writing her own cookbooks, Trang has contributed to many others including Curry Cuisine (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), Saveur Cooks Authentic American (Chronicle Books, 1998), Saveur Cooks Authentic French (Chronicle Books, 1999), and The Encyclopedia of Food & Culture (Scribners & Sons, 2003).

Born in France’s Loire Valley of a French mother and a Cambodian-Chinese father, Trang was raised in Phnom Penh, Paris, and New York. She has traveled extensively and studied culture and cuisine throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Bolstered by her multi-ethnic background, her deepest commitment is to exploring the relationship between culture and food.

Currently the chief east coast correspondent for America’s Dining and Travel Guide (Business Talk Radio), she has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including KSRO’s “Good Food Hour,” KCRW-NPR’s “Good Food,” Bloomberg’s “Executive Dining,” Business Talk’s “America’s Dining & Travel Guide,” WOR “Food Talk with Arthur Schwartz,” NBC’s “B. Smith with Style,” Lifetime’s “New Attitudes,” KRON’s “Bay Café,” News 12 Long Island’s “Morning Show” and “Weekend Show,” Discovery Channel’s “Home Matters,” CBS’s “Martha Stewart Living,” Fox 5 News’s “Good Day Atlanta,” and TV Food Network’s “Cooking Live” and “Sara’s Secrets” with Sara Moulton, and PBS’s “Simply Ming” with Ming Tsai.

Trang received her B.S. of Culinary Arts and Business Minor from Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she was adjunct associate professor in the Hospitality Management Department. Additionally, she has been a guest critic and lecturer at the Casa Malaparte Foundation in Florence and Capri, Italy; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA; California College of Arts & Crafts in San Francisco, CA; University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI; University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany; New York University in New York, NY; and the Center for Health and The Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. She currently teaches food writing at New York University and University of Texas at Austin, and culinary workshops at Syracuse University.

In addition to her writing and teaching, Trang is a food and beverage consultant, spokesperson, and brand and commodity consultant. She has styled, photographed, and produced food and travel stories for lifestyle publications and books.

Corinne Trang is a member of the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance, and Les Dames d’Escoffier and its NY Chapter.