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Jonathan Rosenbloom

Twice a finalist in the PEN Prison Writing fiction contest, Jonathan C. Rosenbloom is a chef and restaurateur who has owned and operated restaurants and Foodservice establishments in New York City, Venice, Italy, and New Delhi, India. In 1992, he founded Il Grifo, Inc. which produced award-winning artisanal ice cream under the trade name, Rosenbloom’s Authentic Italian Gelato.

Mr. Rosenbloom has worked as an independent consultant for Foodservice clients in the United States, India, and Western Europe. An AIS Certified Sommelier, his weekly wine column, Celler Dweller, appeared in the Portland Press Herald’s ‘Maine Today’ section from 2005 to 2006. Prior to his incarceration, he was employed in the dual capacity of Executive Chef and Culinary Specialist for the Business Development team at Sysco, a foodservice company.

In addition to his writing, Mr. Rosenbloom has worked as a tutor in the school department and chef in the prison Commissary for the past two and a half years.

Articles by Jonathan Rosenbloom

Prison and Justice Writing

Tuesday May 10

Chatat

Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age. —Genesis 6:9 Who can say when evil begins? Perhaps it starts with sibilant whispers, reptilian suggestion, something outside language. My brother Yossi always maintained that it appeared much later in history. That in fact God forgave his first children, their expulsion from Eden being

Prison and Justice Writing

Tuesday April 6

Terremoto

We had to put my husband in an asylum. My daughter corrects me whenever I use this word; it’s a psychiatric clinic, Mother, she says. According to my daughter it was the earthquakes that unhinged him. I disagree, and I’ve obviously known him longer though not necessarily better. It began with small things; a few