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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.

Frank Stitt

It was through philosophical treatises on food by authors such as Richard Olney and Elizabeth David that he developed an interest in cooking.

Jeffrey Alford

Jeffrey Alford is an American-born Canadian food writer, best known for cookbooks co-written with his ex-wife Naomi Duguid.

Tom Jaine

Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson (Oxford University Press 1999) ISBN 0-19-211579-0


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Adam Kuban

In October 2006, Kuban sold Slice and A Hamburger Today to Serious Eats, a start-up food site founded by food writer Ed Levine that is focused on sharing food enthusiasm through blogs and online community.

Arctic roll

While some consumers view the Arctic Roll as comfort food, others view it as old fashioned and the food writer Nigel Slater has even described it as tasting of "frozen carpet".

Arroz con pollo

Food writer Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, while pointing to the international aspects of the dish, notes that its origin in Spain already reflected international influences: chicken was brought from India and rice from Asia; saffron was introduced by Phoenician traders; tomatoes and peppers are natives of the Americas.

Choucroute garnie

Food writer Jeffrey Steingarten attempted to catalogue the composition of an authentic recipe in 1989.

Dana Carpender

Dana Carpender (born October 18, 1958) is an American food writer, best known for writing about low carbohydrate dieting.

David Eyre's pancake

The recipe also appears in The Essential New York Times Cookbook, whose author, longtime food writer Amanda Hesser, counts it among her favorites.

David Leite

David Leite (b. Fall River, Massachusetts) is a Portuguese American food writer, cookbook author, and the publisher of the two-time James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria.

Davison, Michigan

Kathleen Flinn, journalist and best-selling author of the culinary memoir The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, was raised in Davison; she frequently refers to her experiences growing up on the family farm here as formative to her life as a chef and food writer.

Egg sandwich

In her memoir, food writer Gael Greene writes of a brief and casual romantic encounter with Elvis Presley.

Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz

Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz (June 17, 1915 - October 27, 2003) was a British-born food writer who popularized Latin American cuisine in the US and Great Britain.

Food critic

For example, Ruth Reichl is often described as a food writer/editor, who in the course of her career served as the "restaurant critic" for The New York Times and for the Los Angeles Times.

Hesser

Amanda Hesser, American food writer for the New York Times Magazine

London Farmers' Markets

The organisation was set up in 1999 by the food writer Nina Planck, based on her experience of selling produce from her family farm at Farmers' Markets in Virginia, USA.

Orford, Suffolk

As well as the Castle, Orford's attractions include river cruises, a number of pubs and hotels, a traditional post office which sells fresh bread, a smokehouse, and two restaurants; the Butley-Orford Oysterage and the Crown and Castle Hotel, owned by food writer TV personality Ruth Watson.

Pierre Hermé

He has written two English-language dessert cookbooks, together with food writer Dorie Greenspan: Desserts by Pierre Hermé and Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Hermé.

Sazerac

A Sazerac cocktail features prominently in an episode of the TV series Treme when chef Janette Desautel (played by Kim Dickens) tosses one in the face of restaurant critic and food writer Alan Richman (appearing as himself).

Stevie Cameron

After a year at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris in 1975, she began working as a food writer and in 1977 became the food editor of the Toronto Star; a year later she moved to the Ottawa Journal as Lifestyles editor.

Tim Greening

In 2005, as a food writer, Greening reported on how to make a meal from the Circle K convenience store.

Verjuice

Maggie Beer, an Australian cook, vintner, and food writer, began the modern resurgence of verjuice when she began commercial production in 1984, after a harvest of Rhine riesling grapes could not be sold.

Veronelli

Luigi Veronelli (1926–2004), Italian wine and food writer, anarchist

Zimmern

Andrew Zimmern (born 1961), American food writer, dining critic, radio talk show host, TV personality and chef