Gil Calderon

Teaches at 92nd Street Y

Former-chef, artist, bookseller—Gil Calderon has trained as a filmmaker at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and as a chef and butcher within Brooklyn’s farm-to-table movement.

Born in the Upper East Side and raised between Queens and Toronto, Gil developed his cooking instincts at a young age with unsupervised cooking sessions and experiments that focused on bread-baking and pastry. He went on to produce large-scale food events throughout the Northeast U.S during his decade-long cooking career.

Gil’s culinary interests now center around nutrition, hyper-local and seasonal eating, as well as traditional cooking methods and techniques, in particular, whole animal cookery and vegetable fermentation.