Prud'homme is a native of New York City, a 1984 graduate of Middlebury College, and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

In 2007, the book won the Literary Food Writing award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).

[4] Prud'homme previously wrote, with co-author Michael Cherkasky, Forewarned (Random House, 2003), about terrorism.

[5] He followed that with The Cell Game (HarperCollins, 2004),[6] about the ImClone scandal; The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century (Scribner, 2011);[7] and Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014).

[11] In 2023, he published Dinner With The President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House.