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John Birdsall
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (Writing)
The definitive biography of America's best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped.
In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery"
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Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A very beautiful and deeply personal cookbook. Quite simply beautiful food - wide-ranging, inspiring, and infused with an enlivening and generous sensibility. Combined with his captivating visuals that highlight the beauty of the food he presents, his personal journey is part of a larger ever-changing culinary landscape that takes all of our struggles and fractured selves to weave a new, uniquely American tapestry of beautiful food. This book is...