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James Andrews Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 23, 1985) was an American chef,
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author, teacher and television personality. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and
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, and lectured widely. He emphasized American cooking, prepared with fresh, wholesome, American ingredients, to a country just becoming aware of its own culinary heritage. Beard taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. He published more than twenty books, and his memory is honored by his foundation's annual
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.


Early life and education


Family

James Andrews Beard was born in
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, on May 5, 1903, to Elizabeth and John Beard. His British-born mother operated the Gladstone Hotel, and his father worked at the city's
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. The family vacationed on the Pacific coast in
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, where Beard was exposed to
Pacific Northwest cuisine Pacific Northwest cuisine is a North American cuisine of the states of Oregon, Washington and Alaska, as well as the province of British Columbia and the southern portion of the territory of Yukon, reflecting the ethnic makeup of the region, ...
. Common ingredients of this cuisine are
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,
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, and other fresh
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;
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meats such as
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,
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, or
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;
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s,
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, small
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s,
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es, and wild plants such as
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or young pushki (''
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'', or cow parsnip). Beard's earliest memory of food was at the 1905
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, when he was two years old. In his
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he recalled:
I was taken to the exposition two or three times. The thing that remained in my mind above all others—I think it marked my life—was watching
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s and shredded wheat biscuits being made. Isn't that crazy? At two years old that memory was made. It intrigued the hell out of me.
At age three Beard was bedridden with
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, and the illness gave him time to focus on the food prepared by his mother and Jue-Let, the family's
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cook. According to Beard he was raised by Jue-Let and Thema, who instilled in him a passion for
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. Beard reportedly " ttributedmuch of his upbringing to Jue-Let," whom he referred to as his Chinese godfather.Dao, Dan Q. "Who was Jue-Let, the Unknown Chinese Chef Who Raised James Beard? Saveur Magazine. 2017.
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Education

Beard graduated from Portland's Washington High School in 1920. In the same year he briefly attended
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in
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. He was expelled for homosexuality in 1922, having had relationships with "one or more male students and a professor." The college granted Beard an
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in 1976. After leaving Reed, he traveled from Portland to Liverpool aboard a British freighter, spending subsequent years living and traveling in Europe. In 1923, he joined a theatrical troupe and studied voice and theater. He also spent time in Paris, where he experienced
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at its bistros and central market, Les Halles. In France, he also had the opportunity to enjoy sexual freedom, having a short relationship with a young man. From this period and the widespread influence of French food culture, he became a
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. In 1927 he returned to the US, spending time in Portland, Hollywood, and New York attempting to start a career in acting, costume and set design, and radio.


Career

Beard moved to
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in 1937. Unlucky in the theater, he and friend Bill Rhodes capitalized on the
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craze by opening Hors d'Oeuvre, Inc., a
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company. This led to lecturing, teaching, writing, and the realization "that part of his mission s a food connoisseurwas to defend the pleasure of real cooking and fresh ingredients against the assault of the Jell-O-mold people and the domestic scientists." He published his first cookbook in 1940: ''Hors D'Oeuvre and Canapés'', a compilation of his catering recipes. According to fellow cooking enthusiast
Julia Child Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, '' ...
, this book put him on the culinary map.Beard, ''James Beard Beard on Food'', pg. vi
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rationing ended Beard's catering business. He enlisted in the Army and was trained as a cryptographic specialist. Because he had hoped to serve in the hotel management division of the Army Quartermaster Corps, he sought and obtained release from the Army in 1943 based on a regulation applying to men over age 38. From August 1946 to May 1947, he hosted '' I Love to Eat'', a live television cooking show on
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, beginning his ascent as an American food authority. According to Child, "Through the years he gradually became not only the leading culinary figure in the country, but 'The Dean of American Cuisine'." In 1952, when
Helen Evans Brown Helen Evans Brown (1904–1964) was an American chef and cookbook writer. She was a nationally known expert and wrote regular food columns, as well as collecting cookbooks from other authors. She was known as the authority on the west coast food ...
published her ''Helen Brown's West Coast Cook Book'', Beard wrote her a letter igniting a friendship that lasted until Brown's death. The two, along with her husband Phillip, developed a friendship which was both professional and personal. Beard and Brown became like siblings, admonishing and encouraging each other, as well as collaborating. According to the James Beard Foundation website, "In 1955, he established The James Beard Cooking School. He continued to teach cooking to men and women for the next thirty years, both at his own schools (in New York City and Seaside, Oregon), and around the country at women's clubs, other cooking schools, and civic groups. He was a tireless traveler, bringing his message of good food, honestly prepared with fresh, wholesome, American ingredients, to a country just becoming aware of its own culinary heritage." Beard brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes during the 1950s, appearing on TV as a cooking personality. David Kamp (who discusses Beard at length in his book, ''The United States of Arugula'') noted that Beard's was the first cooking show on TV. He compares
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' cooking show and school with Beard's, noting that their prominence during the 1950s marked the emergence of a sophisticated, New York-based, nationally and internationally known food culture. Kamp wrote, "It was in this decade he 1950sthat Beard made his name as ''James Beard'', the brand name, the face and belly of American gastronomy." He noted that Beard met Alice B. Toklas on a trip to Paris, indicative of the network of fellow food celebrities who would follow him during his life and carry on his legacy after his death. Beard made endorsement deals to promote products that he might not have otherwise used or suggested in his own cuisine, including
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,
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Mustard,
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Corn Niblets,
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bourbon, Planters Peanuts, Shasta soft drinks,
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chemicals, and Adolph's Meat Tenderizer. According to Kamp, Beard later felt himself a "gastronomic whore" for doing so. Although he felt that mass-produced food that was neither fresh, local nor seasonal was a betrayal of his gastronomic beliefs, he needed the money for his cooking schools. According to Thomas McNamee, "Beard, a man of stupendous appetites—for food, sex, money, you name it—stunned his subtler colleagues." In 1981, Beard and friend
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founded Citymeals-on-Wheels, which continues to help feed the homebound elderly in New York City.


Personal life

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summed up Beard's personal life:
Beard was the quintessential American cook. Well-educated and well-traveled during his eighty-two years, he was familiar with many cuisines but he remained fundamentally American. He was a big man, over six feet tall, with a big belly, and huge hands. An endearing and always lively teacher, he loved people, loved his work, loved gossip, loved to eat, loved a good time.
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described him in a manner similar to Child's description:
In a time when serious cooking meant French Cooking, Beard was quintessentially American, a Westerner whose mother ran a boardinghouse, a man who grew up with hotcakes and salmon and meatloaf in his blood. A man who was born a hundred years ago on the other side of the country, in a city, Portland, that at the time was every bit as cosmopolitan as, say,
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.
Beard admitted, "until I was about forty-five, I guess I had a really violent temper." Beard was
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. According to Beard's memoir, "By the time I was seven, I knew that I was gay. I think it's time to talk about that now." Beard
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in 1981, in ''Delights and Prejudices'', a revised version of his
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. Of Beard's "most significant romantic attachments" was his "lifetime companion" of thirty years, Gino Cofacci, who was given an apartment in Beard's townhouse in the will and died in 1989, and Beard's former cooking school assistant Carl Jerome. John Birdsall, a food writer who won two James Beard Awards, ties Beard's sexuality to his food aesthetics, and said in 2016 it's only recently that people are accepting the connection.


Death

James Beard died of
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on January 21, 1985, at his home in
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at age 81. He was
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and his ashes scattered over the beach in
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, where he spent summers as a child. In 1995, ''Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles: Letters from Helen Evans Brown'' was published. It contained excerpts from Beard's bi-weekly correspondence from 1952 to 1964 with friend and fellow chef
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. The book gave insight to their relationship as well as the way that they developed ideas for recipes, projects and food.


Foundation

After Beard's death in 1985, Julia Child wanted to preserve his home in New York City as the gathering place that it had been during his life.
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, a former student of Beard's and the founder of the
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(formerly Peter Kump's New York Cooking School), spearheaded efforts to purchase the house and create the
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. Beard's renovated
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at 167 West 12th Street in
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, is
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's only historic culinary center. It is preserved as a gathering place where the press and general public could appreciate the talents of emerging and established chefs. In 1986, the
James Beard Foundation The James Beard Foundation is a New York City-based national non-profit culinary arts organization named in honor of James Beard, a prolific food writer, teacher, and cookbook author, who was also known as the "Dean of American Cookery." The prog ...
was established in Beard's honor to provide scholarships to aspiring food professionals and champion the American culinary tradition which Beard helped create.Kamp, pg. 294 "Since its inception in 1991, the James Beard Foundation Scholarship Program has awarded over $4.6 million in financial aid to a variety of students—from recent high school graduates, to working culinary professionals, to career changers. Recipients come from many countries, and enhance their knowledge at schools around the world." The annual James Beard Foundation Awards celebrate fine cuisine around Beard's birthday. Held on the first Monday in May, the awards ceremony honors American chefs, restaurants, journalists, cookbook authors, restaurant designers and electronic-media professionals. It culminates in a reception featuring tastings of signature dishes of more than 30 of the foundation's chefs. A quarterly magazine, ''Beard House'', is a compendium of culinary journalism. The foundation also publishes the ''James Beard Foundation Restaurant Directory'', a directory of all chefs who have presented a meal at the Beard House or participated in one of the foundation's outside fundraising events. The foundation was affected by scandals; in 2004 its head, Leonard Pickell, resigned and was imprisoned for grand
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and in 2005 the board of trustees resigned. During this period, chef and writer
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called the foundation "a kind of benevolent
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operation." A new board of trustees has instituted an ethics policy and chosen a president, Susan Ungaro, to prevent future problems.


Works

*''Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés'' (1940) M. Barrows & Co., revised in 1963 and 1985 *''Cook It Outdoors'' (1941) M. Barrows & Co. *''Fowl and Game Cookery'' (1944) M. Barrows & Co. *''The Fireside Cook Book: A Complete Guide to Fine Cooking for Beginner and Expert'' (1949)
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, reissued in 1982 as ''The Fireside Cookbook'' *''Paris Cuisine'' (1952)
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Beard co-wrote Paris Cuisine with British journalist Alexander Watt. *''The Complete Book of Barbecue & Rotisserie Cooking'' (1954) Maco Magazine Corp., reissued in 1958 as ''New Barbecue Cookbook'' and again in 1966 as ''Jim Beard's Barbecue Cookbook'' *''Complete Cookbook for Entertaining'' (1954) Maco Magazine org *''How to Eat Better for Less Money'' (1954) Simon & Schuster *''James Beard's Fish Cookery'' (1954) Little, Brown, reissued in 1976 and 1987 in paperback as ''James Beard's New Fish Cookery'' *''Casserole Cookbook'' (1955) Maco Magazine Corp. *''The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery'' (1955) Doubleday *''The James Beard Cookbook'' (1959)
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, revised in 1961, 1970, 1987 (paperback) and 1996 *''Treasury of Outdoor Cooking'' (1960)
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*''Delights & Prejudices: A Memoir with Recipes'' (1964) Atheneum, revised in 1981 and 1990 *''James Beard's Menus for Entertaining'' (1965)
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*''How to Eat (and Drink) Your Way through a French (or Italian) Menu'' (1971) Atheneum *''James Beard's American Cookery'' (1972) Little, Brown and Company *''Beard on Bread'' (1973)
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, revised in 1995 (paperback) *''James Beard Cooks with Corning'' (1973) *''Beard on Food'' (1974) Knopf *''New Recipes for the Cuisinart Food Processor'' (1976) *''James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking'' (1977) Knopf, revised in 1978, 1986, and 1990 *''The New James Beard'' (1981) Knopf, revised in 1989 *''Beard on Pasta'' (1983) Knopf *''The Grand Grand Marnier Cookbook'', with John Chang McCurdy (1982) TBWA Advertising, Inc., New York *''Benson & Hedges 100's presents 100 of the world's greatest recipes'' (1976) Philip Morris Inc., New York *''The James Beard Cookbook on CuisineVu'' (1987) A computer diskette with about 125 recipes from ''The James Beard Cookbook'' (unpublished) *''James Beard's Simple Foods'' (1993)
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*''Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles'' (1994) Arcade, edited by John Ferrone *''The James Beard Cookbooks'' (1997)
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, edited by John Ferrone *''The Armchair James Beard'' (1999) The
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, edited by John Ferrone *''The Essential James Beard Cookbook'' (2012)
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Archival collection

The James Beard Papers are housed in the
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at
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.


Notes


See also

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Culinary history of New York City The cuisine of New York City comprises many cuisines belonging to various ethnic groups that have entered the United States through the city. Almost all ethnic cuisines are well represented in New York, both within and outside the various New York ...
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LGBT culture in New York City New York City is home to one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of ''Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day,'' wrote the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most power ...
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List of LGBT people from New York City New York City is home to one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of ''Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day,'' writes that the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most ...
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References

* Beard, James (1990) ''A James Beard Memoir: The James Beard Celebration Cookbook''. Ed. Barbara Kafka. New York: W. Morrow * Beard, James; José Wilson (2007) ''Beard on Food: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American Cooking''. New York: Bloomsbury * Beard, James (1949) ''The Fireside Cook Book: A Complete Guide to Fine Cooking for Beginner and Expert''. New York: Simon & Schuster * Beard, James (1974) ''The Best of Beard: Great Recipes From a Great Cook''. New York: Warner Books * * Clark, Robert (1993) ''James Beard: A Biography''. New York: HarperCollins * Kamp, David (2006) ''The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold-pressed, Dark-Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution''. New York: Broadway Books * Loughery, John (1998) ''The Other Side of Silence—Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History''. New York, Henry Holt and Company .


External links


The Fales Library Guide to the James Beard Papers

James Beard Foundation

James Beard Foundation Awards

James Beard — Food Expert/Writer
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James Beard Audio Recordings


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