Amy Zavatto writes about food, wine, spirits and travel for Imbibe, Frommer’s, Wynn Magazine, Gotham, Edible Manhattan/Brooklyn/East End, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and others. Her work has also appeared in Martha Stewart Weddings, Food & Wine, Cottage Living and on Gourmet.com, and she is the author of Hg2 Eat New York, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Bartending, and co-author of The Renaissance Guide to Wine & Food Pairing with Anthony Didio. She love sincerity, authenticity and heartfelt culinary effort, but loathes bandwagons and ungraciousness. What makes her a hedonist? “My first thought every day is, “Mmm, what should we have for dinner?”