Icons of American cooking
By: Victor W. Geraci and Elizabeth S. Demers, editors
Series: Greenwood icons; Greenwood icons
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780313381324; 9780313381331
Subjects: Chefs; Biography
Description: Profiles 24 important figures in the American food-world-- chefs, writers, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lidia Bastianich / by Diane Todd Bucci; title: Mario Batali / by Tamara Mann; title: James Beard / by Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Victor W. Geraci; title: Anthony Bourdain / by Leena Trivedi-Grenier; title: Cecilia Chaing / by Vicor W. Geraci; title: Julia Child / By Meredith Eliassen; title: Betty Crocker / by JoAnn E. Castagna; title: Culinary Institute of America / by Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer; title: Fannie Farmer and Marion Cunningham / by Bonnie S. Benwick; title: M.F.K. Fisher / by Mildred Jackson; title: Mollie Katzen / by Elizabeth S. Demers; title: Diana Kennedy / by Cynthia D. Bertelsen; title: Edna Lewis / by Michael Twitty; title: Joan Nathan / by Elizabeth S. Demers; title: Jacques Pepin / by Lenora Berendt; title: Paul Prudhomme / by Tabitha Y. Steager; title: Rachael Ray / by Signe Roussean; title: Ruth Reichl / by Francine Segan; title: Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker / by Elizabeth S. Demers; title: Martha Stewart / by Shirley Teresa Wajda; title: Charlie Trotter / by Sean Kenniff; title: Alice Waters / by Victor W. Geraci; title: Chuck Williams / by Victor W. Geraci; title: Tim and Nina Zagat / by Terri Lonier.