Profiles from the kitchen :

Baker-Clark, Charles Allen.

Profiles from the kitchen : what great cooks have taught us about ourselves and our food / Charles A. Baker-Clark. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006. - x, 209 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Lost Connections to Our Food -- James Beard: The Dean of American Cookery -- M.F. K. Fisher: An Ongoing Conversation -- Paul and Julia Child: Mastering More than the Art of French Cooking -- Elizabeth David: Writing Sensually about Food and Culture -- Mama Dip: A Lifetime of Cooking -- Eugene Walter: A Troubadour from the Kitchen -- Susan Spicer: Resolute Dedication to a Craft -- Carol Petrini: Creating Space for Individuality in a World of Mass Production -- Angus Campbell: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes from a Passionate Teacher -- Rick Deann, and Lanie Bayless: Promoting Flavor and the Appreciation of an Authentic Cuisine -- Father Dominic Garramone, OSB: Food and Cooking as an Expression of Spirituality -- John T. Edge: Narrative as a Way to Understand Food and Society -- The Rediscovery of Ourselves and Food.

0813123984 (hbk.) 9780813123981 (hbk.)


Cooks--United States--Biography.

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