Culinary biographies : a dictionary of the world's great historic chefs, cookbook authors and collectors, farmers, gourmets, home economists, nutritionists, restaurateurs, philosophers, physicians, scientists, writers, and others who influenced the way we eat today / edited by Alice Arndt ; with contributions by numerous experts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arndt, Alice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooks--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Cooks.

Food writers--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Food writers.

Gourmets--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Gourmets.

Nutritionists--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Nutritionists.

Restaurateurs--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Restaurateurs.

Home economists--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Home economists.

Farmers--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Farmers.

Food--Encyclopedias.

Food.

Genre:

Reference sources.

cookbooks.

Cookbooks.

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

xiii, 418 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Tex. : YES Press, ©2006.

Summary:

"Culinary Biographies was created to fill the need for a biographical dictionary of gastronomy. Too often the historic individuals whose work with food was important in their own time have been forgotten today, or, if they do appear in some encyclopedia, are included for their achievements in another field. Thus, Pythagoras' mathematical theories overshadow his vegetarian philosophy, Joel Barlow's diplomatic service has eclipsed his "Hasty Pudding," and Sarah Josepha Hale's reputation is tied up with her magazine's fashion plates (which she disliked) instead of her many cookbooks and household manuals. This volume remembers these influential persons and their culinary accomplishments with a biography and, wherever possible, a portrait, from Friedrich Accum to Ziryab, from Pythagoras in the sixth century BC to Julia Child in the 21st century, from agriculturalists to poets, and across the globe from America to China. Among the biographies are famous characters such as the great chef Taillevent; the national cookbook author Pellegrino Artusi; Columella, the teacher of agriculture; the influential artist Rosanjin; Procope the prominent restaurateur; Avicenna the polymath physician who was concerned with diet and health; and the sensual writer M.F.K. Fisher. But there are also many others, less well known, whose stories are both entertaining and informative, and very well told by the contributors! The biographies are followed by three indices in which the subjects are listed by name (and variations of their names), by profession and by country. There is a chronological list of significant culinary texts that links the texts to their authors, who can be found in the main body of the book. Our learned contributors are also listed and identified." -- Publisher.

Contents:

Friedrich Christian Accum

K.T. Achaya

Eliza Acton

Aglae Adanson

Kate Aitken

Minekichi Akabori

Al-Baghdadi

Alexander

Ida Bailey Allen

Juan Altamiras

Amphitryon

Apicius

Nicolas-Francois Appert

John Arbuckle

Archestratus

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Pellegrino Artusi

Athenaeus

Wilbur O. Atwater

Aunt Sammy

Avicenna

Bessie Balwin

Honore de Balzac

Joel Barlow

Bavarchi

James Beard

Antoine Beauvilliers

Simone Beck

Catharine Beecher

Isabella Beeton

Hajji Bekir

Jehane Benoit

Betty Crocker

Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner

Katherine Golden Bitting

Pierre Blot

Johann von Bockenheim

Gail Borden, Jr.

James Buchanan Brady

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Bob Brown

Bushaq

Mike Butt

Poppy Cannon

Antonin Careme

Cato

Buwei Chao

Joyce Chen

Julia Child

Lydia Maria Child

Chiquart

Grace Zia Chu

Craig Claiborne

William Cobbett

Josephine Cochrane

Sophie Coe

Christopher Columbus

Columella

Laurie Colwin

Juliet Corson

Nils Gustaf Dalen

Nobin Chandra Das

Minakshie DasGupta

Elizabeth David

Henriette Davidis

Alan Davidson

Adelle Davis

Lorenzo Delmonico

Jack Cecil Drummond

Hildagonda J. Duckitt

Eisai

Emy

Epicurus

Henriette Schonberg Erken

August Escoffier

N.K. Fairbank

Fannie Merritt Farmer

Joseph Favre

Abby Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher

Theodora FitzGibbon

Charles Elme Francatelli

Galen

Petrona Carrizo de Gandulfo

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Hannah Glasse

Gogol

Charles Goodnight

Sylvester Graham

Jane Grigson

Alexandre Balthasar Laurent Grimod de la Reyniere

Kundan Lal Gujral

Fritz Haber

Sarah Josepha Hale

Marion Harland

Dorothy Hartley

Fred Harvey

Nika Standen Hazelton

Annabella Powell Hill

Erna Horn

Esther Howland

Louis Jammet

Thomas Jefferson

Ella Eaton Kellogg

Alfred A. Knopf

Ray Kroc

Peter Kump

Aveline Kushi

Vincent La Chapelle

Antonio Latini

La Varenne

Legrand d'Aussy

Eliza Leslie

Justus Liebig

Mary J. Lincoln

Kenneth Lo

Dione Lucas

Lucullus

Earl R. MacAusland

Karim Makhmudov

Gervase Markham

Agnes Bertha Marshall

Francois Massialot

Adam Maurizio

Menagier de Paris

Mme. Merigot

Christoforo da Messisbugo

Anastas I. Mikoyan

Mithaecus

Elena Ivanovna Molokhovets

Francisco Martinez Montino

Bipradas Mukhopadhyay

Angel Muro

Ruperto de Nola

Nurallah

Richard Olney

Maria Parloa

Louis Pasteur

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Platina

V.V Pokhlebkin

Edouard de Pomiane

Procope

Pythagoras

Francois Rabelais

Elizabeth Raffald

Mary Randolph

Ellen Swallow Richards

Cesar Ritz

Robert Roberts

Irma S. Rombauer

Sarah Tyson Rorer

Kitaoji Rosanjin

Count Rumford

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

Linda D. Russo

Sarah Rutledge

Bartolomeo Scappi

Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky

Sen No Rikyu

Mary Li Sia

Amelia Simmons

Andre L. Simon

Upton Sinclair

Alexis Soyer

Violetta Symphort

Taillevent

Alice B. Toklas

Catherine Parr Traill

Barbara Tropp

Friedrich Unger

Gregory Usher

Varro

Vatel

Joseph Dommers Vehling

Josefina Velazquez de Leon

Thomas Walker

Artemas Ward

Cajsa Warg

Anna Weckerin

Frances Virginia Whitaker

Harvey Washington Wiley

Hannah Wolley

Yuan Mei

Zhang Qian

Ziryab.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

ISBN:

0971832218

9780971832213

OCLC:

69172659