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In his very little time on Earth he’s managed to carve out your complete, full-blown, multifaceted career as a “food personality.” He hosts a weekend show on Food Network, Good Deal With Dave Lieberman, and an online series called Dave Does, has authored two cookbooks (Young and Hungry and Dave’s Dinners), apparently still works part-time as a private chef and caterer, has designed menus for Delta Airlines, is a spokesperson for Amstel Light and also hosts/produces segments on the Annheiser-Busch Here’s to Beer web site. He was recently spotted whoopin’ it up and over-beering a bit during his cookoff with Michelle Bernstein at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.
Lieberman knows how lucky he is: “I knew I had this love and passion for cooking but I didn’t want to be in a professional kitchen. Now there’s this fortuitous turn of events and I don’t have to. Working in a restaurant kitchen is a really tough environment and it’s matched to certain personalities. The focus is on routine and repetition and I’m much more fascinated by the idea of creating dishes than I am in honing the minutiae of the production. I knew it wasn’t going to be fun to work my way up through the ranks. I mean, I would love to work in Thomas Keller’s kitchen, and I’m sure it would be good for me. But I like to have my hand on the entire picture.”
