Anne Mendelson is an American food journalist and culinary historian. She lives in
Hudson County, New Jersey
Hudson County is the most densely populated county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609. Part of New Jersey's Gateway Region in t ...
, with her cat, and believes that the medley of ethnic cooking in her neighborhood, combined with memories from her childhood in rural Pennsylvania, provided inspiration for her writing.
Life
Mendelson left her studies of the medieval world for the world of food, beginning her culinary career as a cook book reviewer for ''
Bon Appétit
''Bon Appétit'' is a monthly American food and entertaining magazine, that typically contains recipes, entertaining ideas, restaurant recommendations, and wine reviews. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered at the One World Trade Center i ...
''. She later became a staff editor at ''Cuisine'', and from there began freelancing, specializing in culinary writing. She has participated in translating cookbooks from German to English, served as an editorial consultant for cookbook authors, and became deeply involved in the field of culinary history. Her expertise was called upon in 2004, when she was asked to contribute to the ''Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America''. In 2010, she was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
[ ]List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2010
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.
Mendelson helped to found th
Culinary Historians of New York In 2007, she was awarded th
in Food History at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Her essay was published i
''Gastropolis'' a collection of New York food-related essays, published by Columbia University Press in fall 2008.
Mendelson has also written cookbooks. Together wit
Zerela Martinez chef and restaurateur, she has collaborated three such books: ''Food From My Heart'
(Macmillan 1992) ''The Food and Life of Oaxaca'
(Macmillan 1997) and ''Zarela’s Veracruz'
(Houghton Mifflin, 2001)''Stand Facing the Stove''
of which she is the sole author, was published in 1997 by Henry Holt and told the story of Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, the women responsible for writing The Joy of Cooking
''Joy of Cooking'', often known as "''The Joy of Cooking''", is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks. It has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies. It was published privately during 1931 by ...
. The book was called “probably the most important book on American food published this year” by Russ Parsons of the Los Angeles Times. Her work, ''Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages'' was published b
Knopf
was published in fall 2008. Mendelson served as contributing editor at ''Gourmet
Gourmet (, ) is a cultural idea associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterized by refined, even elaborate preparations and presentations of aesthetically balanced meals of several contrasting, of ...
'', and has been called upon as a cookbook reviewer for the ''New York Times'' Dining section.
Works
;Books
* (with Zarela Martínez) ''Zarela's Veracruz'', Houghton Mifflin, 2001
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;Journalism
A Green Thought in a Black Shade; the Guest Word.
''The New York Times'', 9 June 1974. Accessed 23 July 2008
Dining and Wine, ''The New York Times'', 14 Mar. 2007. Accessed 23 July 2008
''The New York Times'', 2 July 2008. Accessed 23 July 2008
Notes
References
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External links
Anne Mendelson on Gourmet.Com
''Gourmet'', 23 July 2008
* O'Neill, Molly
''The New York Times'', 5 Nov. 1997. Accessed 23 July 2008
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American food writers
People from Hudson County, New Jersey