- Mr. Food
Art Ginsburg, commonly known as Mr. Food, is a television and radio chef who emphasises simple to moderately complex recipes. With a notably enthusiastic style, Mr. Food specializes in practical food preparation techniques often using readily available ingredients such as canned goods or frozen foods. He extols a "its easy, you can do it" philosophy of cooking. Art Ginsburg was originally a butcher who, in 1975, … - Mario Batali
Mario Batali Mario, whose original career path had him studying the golden age of Spanish theater at Rutgers University, took his first bite of culinary training at Le Cordon Bleu in London, from which he withdrew almost immediately due to a "lack of interest." - Mark Bittman
Mark Bittman is a well-known U.S. cookbook author and food writer. He lives in New York. He is not a trained chef, but came to cooking through journalism. Bittman writes the New York Times weekly column "The Minimalist" and is the author of numerous award-winning cookbooks including "How to Cook Everything", "Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking", and the "Minimalist Cookbook" series. - Delia Smith
Delia Smith OBE (born 18 June, 1941) is an English television chef, known for her interest in food and teaching basic cookery. - Harold McGee
Harold McGee writes about the chemistry, technique and history of food and cooking and is the author of two books that explain kitchen science in an approachable manner. His first book, "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen" was initially published in 1984. A greatly revised second edition was published in 2004. McGee has also written for "Nature", "Health", "The New York Times", "The World Book Encyclopedia", … - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Caroline Lucas
Caroline Patricia Lucas PhD (born 9 December 1960 in Malvern, Worcestershire) is an English politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England Region. She is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales and has been an MEP since 1999. She is one of two Green MEPs from the UK: the other is Jean Lambert MEP. She is noted for campaigning and writing on Green economics, localisation, alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, … - Rosa Delauro
Rosa DeLauro is a member of the United States House of Representatives. Holding the position since 1991, DeLauro represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. She is currently serving her ninth term. Before becoming a member of the House, DeLauro served as Executive Director of EMILY'S List, as well as serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd . - Michael Winner
Michael Winner (born 30 October 1935) is an English film director and producer, active in both Europe and the United States, also known as a food critic. - Craig Claiborne
Craig Claiborne was a restaurant critic, food writer and former food editor of the "New York Times". He was the author of numerous cookbooks and an autobiography. Over the course of his career, he made many contributions to gastronomy and food writing in the United States. - Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead US government agency for international economic development and humanitarian assistance, from 2001 until 2006. During this period, Mr. Natsios managed the agency's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years. - Peter Finch
Peter Finch is a Welsh poet and author. He managed a Cardiff bookshop, Oriel, for thirty years, and was editor of several poetry magazines, notably "Second Aeon". He is also an expert on self-publishing. Since 1998, he has been chief executive of Yr Academi Gymreig, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency & society for Writers. *"Poems for Ghosts" *"Antibodies" *"Food" *"Vizet / Water" *"Real Cardiff" - M. F. K. Fisher
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 - June 22, 1992) was a prolific and well-respected writer, writing more than 20 books during her lifetime and also publishing two volumes of journals and correspondence shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, "Serve it Forth", was published in 1937. Her books dealt primarily with food, considering it from many aspects: preparation, natural history, culture, and philosophy. - David Leite
David Leite is a food writer and publisher of the James Beard Award-winning Web site Leite's Culinaria. He has written for Bon Appétit, Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Food Arts, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Chicago Sun Times, The Washington Post, and other publications here and abroad. He's a three-time nominee for the Bert Greene Award for Food Journalism, which he won in 2006. His work has been featured in Best Food Writing (ISBN 1-56924-416-2) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, … - Jerome Groopman
Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for "The New Yorker" since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books. He has published approximately 150 scientific articles and has written several Op-Ed pieces on medicine for the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", … - Arve Henriksen
Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He has played among others with Misha Alperin, Jon Balkes Magnetic North Orchestra, Nils Petter Molvær, Audun Kleive, Trygve Seim, Terje Isungset, Christian Wallumrød and recently with Iain Ballamy's Food for Quartet and Supersilent, both bands signed on Rune Grammofon. - Paolo de Castro
Paolo De Castro (born 2 February 1958 in San Pietro Vernotico) is an Italian politician, and the current Italian Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies. - Michio Kushi
Michio Kushi born 1926 in Japan, helped to introduce modern macrobiotics to the United States in the early 1950’s. He has lectured about philosophy, spiritual development, health, food and diseases at conferences and seminars all over the world. - Margaret Fulton
Margaret Isobel Fulton (b. 1924, Nairn, Scotland) is an Australian food and cooking 'guru', writer, journalist, author, and commentator. She was the first of this genre of writers in Australia. Fulton's book, "The Margaret Fulton Cookbook", was published by Paul Hamlyn in 1968 and was an instant success. Over 1.5 million copies have sold and it remains in print. - Laura Chenel
Laura Chenel is a cheese maker who has popularized goat cheese in America. In 1979, she developed the American Chevre goat cheese. - Joseph Mallozzi
Joseph Mallozzi is a Canadian writer and producer. He is most noted for his contributions to the "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate: Atlantis" television series. He joined the Stargate production team at the start of the show's fourth season in 2000. Since then he has been both writer and executive producer for the series. On children's television, he worked as a writer for "Animal Crackers", "Little Lulu Show", "Flying Rhino Junior High", … - Cosimo Matassa
Cosimo Matassa is an Italian-American recording engineer and studio owner responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings. Matassa opened the J&M Recording Studio at the back of his family’s shop on Rampart Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1945, when aged 18. In 1955, he moved to the larger Cosimo Recording Studio. As an engineer and proprietor, he was crucial to the development of the R&B, rock and soul sound of the 1950s and '60s, … - Mairead McGuinness
Mairead McGuinness is an Irish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Ireland East. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party. Máiread McGuinness was the first female graduate of University College, Dublin's degree in Agricultural economics and had a career in a number of media outlets before entering politics in 2004. She worked as a researcher on The Late Late Show, as a presenter on RTÉ's Ear to the Ground and Celebrity Farm, … - Henri Nestlé
Henri Nestlé, born Heinrich Nestle, was the founder of Nestlé S.A., the world's largest food and beverage company, as well as one of the main creators of milk chocolate. - Robert Pollock
Robert L. Pollock is an editorial writer and Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member. - David Downie
David S. Downie is a multilingual Paris-based American author and journalist who writes most often about culture, food and travel. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Downie took a master’s degree in Italian from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was a University Fellow. After working in the early 1980s as a translator, interpreter and press officer in Milan, he moved to Paris. - Philip Bushill-Matthews
Philip Bushill-Matthews (born on 15 January 1943 in Droitwich) is a British politician and Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands with the Conservative Party, part of the European Democrats and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. He is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and also a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999, … - Juliette Rossant
Juliette Rossant (born 1959) is an American author, journalist, and poet, best known for her writings about top-grossing celebrity chefs about whom she first wrote for "Forbes" magazine and for whom she has defined if not coined the term "Super Chef," also the title of her first book and of her online magazine. - Nicholas Saunders
Nicholas Saunders (January 25 (or possibly July 25), 1938 – February 3, 1998) was a free-thinking British figure of the 'alternative' movement from the 1970s until his death in a car crash in South Africa. He researched, self-published and distributed a series of editions of 'Alternative London'. These were encyclopaediac guides to living in London particularly for young people squatting, living on low incomes, on the fringes of conventional society, … - Henry Heimlich
Henry J. Heimlich (b. February 3, 1920), an American physician, is primarily known for the invention of the Heimlich Maneuver. Heimlich was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in 1941, and received his M.D. from the Weill Cornell Medical College in 1943. He is best known for the choking treatment named after him. Heimlich first published his findings on the use of this maneuver in 1974, … - Earl Tupper
Earl Silas Tupper (July 28, 1907-October 5, 1983) was the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food. He was born on a farm in Berlin, New Hampshire, USA. After school, Tupper began a landscaping and nursery business until the Great Depression forced it into bankruptcy. He then got a job with the DuPont Chemical Company. Using inflexible pieces of polyethylene slag given to him by DuPont, … - Aun Koh
Chubby Hubby or Aun Koh (born 1972) is a blogger from Singapore, whose blog is the most popular food blog in Singapore. His blog consists of dining reviews, travelling, wine and recipes for baking and cooking. It also consists of many photographs of the food, mainly photoshopped. The blog earned reviews in the "Guardian" and was nominated for the world's best urban food blog in the 2005 Urban Blogging Awards. - Prosper Montagné
Prosper Montagné was a chef and author of many books and articles on food, cooking, and gastronomy, notably the Larousse Gastronomique. Upon leaving the Lycée de Carcassonne, he wished to become an architect, but this proved impossible. His father acquired l'Hotel des Quatre-Saisons in Toulouse, with his son as a chef - the beginning of an illustrious career. He apprenticed at the "Grand Hôtel" of Paris and the "Hotel d'Angleterre" of Cauterets, … - Nellie Cashman
Ellen Cashman (1845 - January 4, 1925), better known as Nellie Cashman, was a native of County Cork, Ireland, who became famous across the American and Canadian west as a nurse and gold prospector - Ruben Rausing
Ruben Rausing (1895 - 1983) was the co-founder of the liquid food packaging company Tetra Pak. He was born in Raus, near Helsingborg, Sweden. - Sakıp Sabancı
Sakıp Sabancı was a prominent Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist. Born as the second son of a cotton trader, he worked in all the ranks of his father's business without completing the high school. He was the head of Turkey's second largest business conglomerate and 147th richest man on the Forbes list of the world's top billionaires in 2004. - Rose Marie Pangborn
Rose Marie Pangborn (1932-1990) was an American scientist, born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was a pioneer in the sensory analysis of food. - David Balfe
David Balfe (c.1958-) is a musician who is most notable for founding the Zoo and Food record labels. Balfe was a member of several Liverpool bands in the late 1970s, including Big in Japan, Dalek I Love You and The Teardrop Explodes. He also played on and produced some early Echo & The Bunnymen and Strawberry Switchblade albums. Balfe and Bill Drummond founded the Zoo record label in 1978 in order to release Big in Japan's EP From Y To Z and Never Again. - Peter Hardwick
Peter Hardwick (born 1958) is an Australian food horticulturist and environmentalist, recognized as an early pioneer of the Australian bushfood industry. He challenged the established belief that native Australian food plants were not suitable for cropping; conceived the commercial strategy of processing strong flavored native food plants; and, … - Blanche Taylor Moore
Blanche Taylor Moore is a convicted murderer and probable serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. Her "modus operandi" included poisoning by arsenic hidden in food.
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