Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

The primary outlet for her writing from 1995 to 2008 was in the City Pages, a Minneapolis-St. Paul alternative weekly owned by Village Voice Media.

[1] She published Drink This: Wine Made Simple in 2009,[2] and in 2023 the Minnesota Historical Society Press released an anthology of her work, The Essential Dear Dara.

She has also been included in American Fiction, Volume Nine: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.

The book features some wine history and economics of the industry as well as interviews from such critics, winemakers, and chefs as Robert M. Parker, Jr., Paul Draper, and Thomas Keller.

Grumdahl also appears weekly on WCCO on the Chad Hartman Show and is an occasional guest on Minnesota Public Radio.

One recommendation that Grumdahl makes in her book Drink This: Wine Made Simple is to put ice cubes in wine.