Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, April 23, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cook-book cooks…–John Thorne
John Thorne is a culinary writer born in Quincy, Massachusetts, who has written a number of best-selling books on food history and culture, including The Outlaw and Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook.
A graduate of Amherst College, he began to teach himself to cook frugally while living briefly in New York City’s Lower East Side, where he sought to become a writer of some sort as a very young man during the 1960s.
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