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Betty Fussell


Born
in Riverside, California, The United States
July 28, 1927

Genre
Memoir, Food, Travel


Betty Harper Fussell is an award-winning American writer and is the author of eleven books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir. 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, The 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 Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef, and she is now working on How to Cook a Coyote: A Manual of Survival in NYC.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 807 ratings · 126 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors
My Kitchen Wars
3.39 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
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The Story of Corn
3.57 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions
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Mabel
3.65 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
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Eat Live Love Die: Selected...
3.38 avg rating — 68 ratings — 3 editions
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Raising Steaks: The Life an...
3.37 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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I Hear America Cooking: The...
3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions
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Masters of American Cookery...
4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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How to Cook a Coyote: The J...
3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions
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Home Bistro
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Crazy for Corn
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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