Jeremy Parzen

{{Short description|American wine writer}}

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|birth_date={{birth year and age|1967}}

|birth_place=Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

|alma_mater=University of California, Los Angeles

|occupation={{flatlist|

• Writer
• educator
• blogger
• historian
• musician

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Jeremy Parzen (born 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American wine writer and educator, blogger,{{cite news|url=http://thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-italy-brought-home-a-taste-of-france|title=When Italy Brought Home a Taste of France|work=New York Times|accessdate=November 7, 2009 | first=Eric | last=Asimov | date=October 18, 2007}} food and wine historian, and musician who resides in Houston, Texas. He is author of the wine and lifestyle blog, Do Bianchi, and was a co-editor, together with Italian wine writer Franco Ziliani, of VinoWire, a blog devoted to news from the world of Italian wine.{{Cite web |url=http://vinowire.com/ |title=VinoWire |access-date=2019-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711235445/https://vinowire.com/ |archive-date=2017-07-11 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2008/03/06/WI7KVDPR0.DTL|title=The Sipping News: Italian wine online|last=Gold|first=Amanda|date=March 7, 2008|work=San Francisco Chronicle|publisher=Hearst Communications Inc. |accessdate=2009-11-16}}

Parzen received his doctorate in Italian literature and language at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997 (with a dissertation on Petrarchan prosody and Renaissance transcriptions of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) and lived and worked for many years between Los Angeles and Italy as an instructor of Italian language and musician beginning in 1989, when he launched his academic career. In 1997, he moved to New York City, where he began to work as an editor at La Cucina Italiana and ultimately became its chief wine writer before leaving to pursue an independent career as a wine and food writer.

From 2013 onward, he has worked as a freelance writer and marketing consultant in the wine industry. His byline has appeared in numerous publications, including Wine & Spirits and Decanter, and he is the author of a number of university-press translations,{{cite web|last=Giuliani |first=Alfredo |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=jeremy+parzen |title=Results for 'jeremy parzen' |publisher=Worldcat.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-01}} including The Art of Cooking (University of California Press, 2005) by 15th-century chef Maestro Martino of Como{{cite web|url=http://rex.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9423.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714025613/http://rex.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9423.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-14 |title=The Art of Cooking, With Fifty Modernized Recipes by Stefania Barzini - The Eminent Maestro Martino of Como - University of California Press |publisher=Rex.ucpress.edu |date= |access-date=2013-04-01 }} and The History of Italian Cinema (Princeton, 2009), by Gian Piero Brunetta.{{cite book|url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8880.html |title=Brunetta, G.; Parzen, J.,: The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century |publisher=Press.princeton.edu |date= May 2011|isbn=9780691119892 |accessdate=2013-04-01}}

Parzen plays in the musical group Nous Non Plus under the stage name Cal d'Hommage.{{Cite web |url=http://www.terlatowines.com/ratings/reviewsContent.asp?id=12493 |title=Bollinger |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716211113/http://www.terlatowines.com/ratings/reviewsContent.asp?id=12493 |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://saignee.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/dobianchi-x-saignee-x-josko-gravner-an-orange-wine-evening|title=saignee.wordpress|date=15 May 2009 |accessdate=November 8, 2009}} He is also credited as being a co writer of some of the band's material.{{cite web

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