Michael Turback created and nurtured the eponymous Turback's, one of Upstate New York's first destination restaurants. His mission combined inventive, passionate cooking with local ingredients, and the daring concept of a wine list with exclusively New York regional wines-this achievement resulted in Wine Enthusiast naming Turback's ""one of the wine-friendliest restaurants in America,"" and the restaurant was awarded ""Best American Wine List"" by Restaurant Business. Michael is also the author of Cocktails at Dinner, ReMixology, and What a Swell Party It Was, all from Skyhorse Publishing. He resides in Ithaca, New York.