St. John Frizell

Teaches at Pioneer Works

St. John Frizell is an award-winning writer, bartender, and owner of Fort Defiance, a critically-acclaimed restaurant in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which opened in June 2009. In 2005, Frizell quit his job as promotion copy director of Bon Appétit magazine, and learned the art of bartending from Audrey Saunders during an eighteen-month stint at her world-renowned cocktail bar Pegu Club. Frizell’s writing on food, travel, and cocktails has appeared in many publications, including Bon Appétit, Saveur, Gourmet.com, epicurious.com, Oxford American, Edible Brooklyn, and Edible Manhattan. Knives of Glory, the culinary graphic novel he cowrote with Gabe Soria, will be published in 2014.