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3 unusual facts about Craig Claiborne


Diana Kennedy

1969 At Craig Claiborne's (food editor of New York Times) urging started to give Mexican cooking lessons in New York and spent more than half the next 7 years travelling intensively to do research for future books.

Foods of the World

The individual volumes were written by well-known experts on the various cuisines and included significant contemporary food writers, including Craig Claiborne, Pierre Franey, James Beard, Julia Child, and M.F.K. Fisher, and was overseen by food writer Michael Field who died before the series was complete.

Martha Rosler

She has produced numerous other "word works" and photo/text publications; now exploring cookery in a mock dialogue between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, now analyzing imagery of women in Russia or exploring responses to repression, crisis, and war.



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