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Michael Anstendig

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🖋Editor in Chief at Hanna Lee Communications (@hannaleepr) 🖌 Freelance food and drinks journalist 📚 book author 📝 contributor to The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktail 🎙 podcast host 🎥 media trainer 🌍 globetrotter in search of flavor sensations. ✍️ Partner, Editor in Chief and Media Trainer at Hanna Lee Communications, an award-winning public relations agency specialized in hospitality and travel. Headquartered in New York City, its clients include bars, restaurants, hotels, spirits, beer, wine and travel destinations. 🍹🥃🥘 Contributed to media outlets such as the New York Times, Time Out New York, and reviewed more than 200 restaurants for New York Magazine’s website, www.nymag.com. 📚 Co-author of the upcoming book, “The Japanese Art of the Cocktail” with Masahiro Urushido, which will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June 2021. The book is the first by HLC Book Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of @hannaleepr. 🎙 Co-hosts “Hospitality Forward,” the agency’s new podcast with listeners in 55 countries. Together with Hanna Lee, the duo interviews leading hospitality and travel journalists who share insights and tips for industry pros to earn the media’s spotlight. 📝 Contributor to The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails by Editor in Chief David Wondrich and Associate Editor Noah Rothbaum. 🥃🥘 Founding Board Member of the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), with Dave Arnold and Hanna Lee. 📓 Taught PR writing at New York University’s School of Continuing Education for close to 20 years.