Anthony Dias Blue is the recipient of a 2001 James Beard Foundation Award as well as the 1997 Communicator of the Year Award from the prestigious International Wine & Spirits Competition in London. He is one of the most influential food and wine personalities in the United States. His work in various media is circulated to more than 30,000,000 global consumers each month. He can be found in print periodicals, on radio, in bookstores and in cyberspace.

For more than two decades Mr. Blue was associated with BON APPETIT, the largest circulation food publication in the United States, serving both as Wine and Spirits Editor and as Director of the Bon Appétit Tasting Panel, an important wine industry advisory group. Mr. Blue's influential consumer-oriented "Blue Lifestyle Minute" on WCBS radio (880 AM) in New York is broadcast several times each weekday and can also be heard daily on CBS radios's KFWB (980 AM) in Los Angeles. Mr. Blue also contributes regularly to THE ROBB REPORT, DECANTER, DRINKS, ORIENT-EXPRESS, C MAGAZINE, PRIVATE CLUBS, BEL-AIR, GREENWICH, and VIRTUOSO LIFE, as well as making occasional contributions to the American Airlines in-flight magazines AMERICAN WAY and CELEBRATED LIVING. In 2007, Mr. Blue became co-owner and Editor in Chief of THE TASTING PANEL magazine, an important beverage industry trade monthly.  Read more about Anthony and Blue Lifestyle.