Food writer Marion Cunningham Has Died
There have been many great tributes posted about the death of food writer Marion Cunningham. She was best known for rewriting the Fannie Farmer cookbook. This is from the NY Times obituary:
“Mr. Beard took to this tall, blue-eyed homemaker, and for the next 11 years she was his assistant, helping him establish cooking classes in the Bay Area. The job gave her a ringside seat to a period in American cooking when regional food, organic produce and a new way of cooking and eating were just becoming part of the culinary dialogue. Her association with Mr. Beard also gave her the big break of her career, in the late 1970s, when he passed her name to Judith Jones, the well-known New York culinary editor, who was looking for someone to rewrite “The Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
That project led to seven more cookbooks; her own television show, “Cunningham & Company,” which ran for more than 70 episodes, sometimes on the Food Network; and a longstanding cooking column for The Chronicle.”
She also wrote a food column for the L.A. Times in the years after food editor Jeanne Voltz left for the East Coast. Both women are mentioned in the book, Fearless Frying.
I am continuing to collect information about food writers and will be presenting papers about two significant food editors (Jane Nickerson and Cecily Brownstone) at NCA in the fall.
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