Betty Ellen Harper (1927-07-28) July 28, 1927 (age 96) Riverside, California, U.S.
Pen name
Betty Fussell
Occupation
Writer, author, educator, historian
Language
English
Alma mater
Pomona College (B.A.), Radcliffe College (M.A.), Rutgers University (Ph.D.)
Genre
Biographies, Cookbooks, Food History, Memoirs
Years active
1952–present
Notable works
The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Saveur, Vogue, Food & Wine, Metropolitan Home, Gastronomica,"The Story of Corn", "I Hear America Cooking", My Kitchen Wars, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef, "Mabel: Hollywood's First I-Don't-Care Girl"
Notable awards
See Awards
Spouse
Paul Fussell
(m. 1949; div. 1981)
Children
2
Website
bettyfussell.com
Betty Ellen Fussell (née Harper; born July 28, 1927) is an American writer[1] and is the author of 12 books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir.[2][3] Over the last 50 years, her essays on food, travel and the arts have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Saveur, Vogue, Food & Wine, Metropolitan Home and Gastronomica. Her memoir, My Kitchen Wars, was performed in Hollywood and New York as a one-woman show by actress Dorothy Lyman. Her most recent book is Eat Live Love Die,[4] and she is now working on How to Cook a Coyote: A Manual of Survival.
^Wells, Pete (November 24, 1999). ""My Kitchen Wars" by Betty Fussell (review)". Salon. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
^"Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays". Kirkus Reviews. September 2016.
^"Watch this short film about Tejuino, Mexico's fermented corn drink". Food Republic. November 15, 2016.
^Bone, Eugienia (November 23, 2016). "What to give: Food books". The Wall Street Journal.
Betty Ellen Fussell (née Harper; born July 28, 1927) is an American writer and is the author of 12 books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history...
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ISBN 978-1-57965-322-4. Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef by BettyFussell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2008. ISBN 0-15-101202-4. p. 286.[2] "Where...
"Indian corn" in 18th-century North America. The historian of food BettyFussell writes in an article on the history of the word corn in North America...
Steve Sullivan. The 2009 inductees were David Burke, John T. Edge, BettyFussell, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, and Clark Wolf. The 2010 inductees were Leah...
Columbia University, where she took a food-writing class taught by BettyFussell. In her early career, Clark was a freelance writer for various publications...
as a combination with casseroles and puddings. Noted food historian BettyFussell stated that stewed tomatoes were one of the most loved and common dishes...
conventions including the Culinary Institute of America. Southern food writer BettyFussell said of Phila Hach, "What the 'Grand Ole Opry' did for country music...
of the award are: 1992: Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner 1993: BettyFussell, The Story of Corn: The Myths and History, the Culture and Agriculture...
Arepa Binatog List of maize dishes Pinole Popcorn Pozole Sagamite Fussell, Betty Harper (2004). The Story of Corn. University of New Mexico Press. p...
The University of Tennessee Press. pp. 498–499. ISBN 0-87049-248-9. Fussell, Betty Harper (2004). The Story of Corn. UNM Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-3592-0...
Pg. 122. Scharnhorst, Gary. Literary Eats. McFarland. p. 19. Harper Fussell, Betty (2004). The Story of Corn. UNM Press. pp. 184–185. ISBN 0-8263-3592-6...
Lady's Book. University Press of Kentucky. Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy; Fussell, Betty (2005). Masters of American Cookery: M.F.K. Fisher, James Andrew Beard...
University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6451-1. Retrieved July 29, 2010. Harper Fussell, Betty (1992). Mabel: Hollywood's First I-Don't-Care Girl (Illustrated ed.)...
The Artful Diner. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013. Fussell, Betty (2008). Raising steaks: the life and times of American beef. Houghton...
August 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2008. Edition 2071. Print edition p. 140 Fussell, Betty (5 September 1999). "The World Before Starbucks". The New York Times...
Chinese cook, Jue-Let, who was a major culinary influence on Beard. Fussell, Betty; Kennedy, Mary Frances (2005). Masters of American Cookery: M.F.K. Fisher...
book on American class structure titled Class, by Paul Fussell. In his final chapter, Fussell named an 'X' category of people who wanted to hop off the...
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