Favorite food writer

[Idahorn2]

Not necessarily cookbook authors, but those who write about food. I like M.F.K. Fisher and Waverly Root, but I'm not sure what is more current out there. Is there a guy named Rosengarten who writes for the New Yorker or someone like that??

 

[Idahorn2]

This post has languished here, with no replies, while way up there folks are talking in raptures about Robb Walsh. A sentiment, by the way, with which I am entirely in accord. I practically tear up when I read his stuff on Q, as well as TexMex.

No one has noticed that Walsh is a FOOD WRITER!!! He may not be much of a cook and is certainly not a chef. (If he were a good cook, he would likely not spend so much time eating out--...well maybe not, this is pretty conjectural.)

He has compiled at least two excellent cookbooks--but he lays no claim to having developed or even experimented with the recipes. All the stuff is properly attributed to well-sourced origins.

I dearly hope he comes out with another similar book based on traditional Texas country cooking--CFS, corn bread, biscuits, greens, Dobie's beans, and the like--chess pies. This would be a natural third leg to a very sturdy stool on Lone Star cuisine.

 

[YChang]

How about Mark Bittman? I like his sense of humor and recently I've been watching all his minimalist videos on the nytimes site.

 

[Idahorn2]

Walsh has a new cookbook coming out, it is mentioned in a new thread; about Texas Cowboy Cooking or something like that.

 

[Jellydonuts]

I like Grady Spears.

 

[Mrmyke709]

Mick Vann..he writes for the Austin Chronicle.
And he makes an awesome redfish in chile sauce.

 

[Smoky Brisket]

Anyone read any of Ruth Reichl's books?

 

[Ankf00]

I like Bittman as well, aside from his insistence than you can't grill a steak in the winter...

 

[alxhorns]

Paula Dean.....