BIO
BETTY FUSSELL
Author
Best Known for her The Story of Corn, Betty Fussell is the author of twelve books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir. Her essays on food travel and the arts had appeared in scholarly journals, national magazines and newspapers over the past 40 years. She has lectured throughout the country from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to Iowa's State Fair. Her many awards include the IACP's Jane Grigson Award, Food Art's Silver Spoon Award, James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award and Who's Who in Food & Beverage. She has taught food writing, food history and food preparation at universities, colleges, culinary schools and cooking stores across the United States and in Mexico. 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 Eat, Live, Love, Die: Selected Essays, published in 2016 by Counterpoint Press. She is completing a second memoir titled How to Cook a Coyote: A Manual of Survival.
NEWS AND EVENTS
10/29/19
Women on Food
05/20/17
Iron Horse to Iron Chef - Betty Fussell
L.A. Times Festival of Books 2017
04/22/17
03/01/17
Food for Thought and for Life by Joan Tapper
Santa Barbara Magazine
02/07/17
Eat With Your Eyes
01/09/17
Betty Fussell Doesn't Mince Words In The Frank, Funny 'Eat, Live, Love,Die'
01/05/17
To eat anything is an adventure: Betty Fussell on 50 years of food writing
The Washington Post review
"In Conversation." with Melissa
11/22/16
The Wall Street Journal
11/18/16
11/21/16
My Worst Thanksgiving Ever
Book Signing at Chaucer's Bookstore:
11/16/16
Kirkus Review (STARRED)
10/01/16
11/01/16
11/14/16
CONTACT
Betty Fussell
Casa Dorinda B -40
300 Hot Springs Road
Santa Barbara Ca 93108
Tel: 805-969-8219
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