Dan Perlman is an accomplished chef and sommelier whose career arc has taken him from his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to more than thirty years in the restaurant business in New York City, and on to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is the author of the widely read and popular food, wine and travel blog, SaltShaker, and the owner and chef of his own restaurant and cooking school, Casa Saltshaker, and is also an internationally published food and wine writer.