Albertos Arouh
Current Status:
- Professor of Economics at the American College of Greece, Deree College, Athens, Greece
- Food writer and restaurant critic in the Sunday supplements of the newspaper Eleftherotypia (as "Epicouros")
The following is a short CV of "Epicouros"
2003- Food columnist and restaurant critic in "Gourmet", food magazine of Eleftherotypia
2005- Member of the "Gourmet" Restaurant Awards Committee of Eleftherotypia
2008- Instructor in the theory of gastronomy, seminars organized by "Gourmet"
2004- Columnist on gastronomy in Cogito, a philosophy magazine published in Greek
2002- Columnist on gastronomy in the Greek edition of Harper's Bazaar
1999- Columnist on gastronomy in the magazine Status
2002-06 Columnist on gastronomy in the magazine EY ZHN
2003-4 Restaurant critic in the daily Citipress
2002-3 Columnist on gastronomy in the magazine MEN
2001-2 Restaurant critic in the Sunday supplement "View" of Kathimerini newspaper
1994-2003 Restaurant critic in the financial daily Kerdos
Publications
• Director of the series of books entitled "Gastronomy and Thought", published by Polytropon Press (2008-2009)
• Director of the series of books entitled "Words and Tastes", published by Novoli Press (2010- ).
• Comedo Ergo Sum: Ten Dialogues on Food, Novoli Press 2010.
• Art Cuisine: Food as Art, Imako Press, 2006 (Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2007).
• A Critique of Food Reason, Kedros Press, 2006.
• Chapter in Authenticity in the Kitchen, Prospect Books, 2006.
• A Taste of Sephardic Salonica, with Nina Benroubi, Fytrakis Press, 2002.
• The Best Restaurants of Athens, Best Press, 2001-2.
Articles and Conferences
2007 Food as Art, paper delivered in the Conference: Nectar and Ambrosia - Feed the Artists that Feed the Mind, Athens, Greece.
2005 Food as Art and the Question of Authenticity, paper delivered in the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, Oxford.