Description:
A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (Writing)
The definitive biography of America's best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped.
Brief description: John Birdsall is the author of The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard and is the recipient of two James Beard Awards for food and culture writing. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Review Quotes: For the first time, Mr. Birdsall brings both scholarly research and a queer lens to Beard's life, braiding the strands of privilege and pain, performance and anxiety, into an entirely new story.--Julia Moskin "New York Times"