Menus from the cooks and writers who changed how we eat, plus this week's regional kitchen. Open one and it lands in a list you can shop.
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Julia ChildThe television teacher who brought classic French technique into American kitchens and made it feel achievable.
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James BeardThe dean of American cooking, who argued that the country's own regional dishes deserved the same respect as France's.
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Elizabeth DavidThe writer who taught postwar Britain to cook with olive oil, garlic, and the markets of the Mediterranean.
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Craig ClaiborneThe New York Times food editor who made restaurant criticism and global cooking a fixture of American newspapers.
Salon
A supper for the new philosophyBacon gathers Galileo and Kepler to test his argument that knowledge must be built from experiment rather than ancient authority.
1620 · London, England
Salon
The music of the spheresKepler celebrates the completion of his harmonies with Galileo and Bacon, and defends the music he hears in the planets.
1618 · Prague, Bohemia
Dinner
A supper on West Twelfth StreetBeard gathers the writers and editors who will define American food writing over the next three decades.
1957 · Greenwich Village, New York
Dinner
Sunday lunch in ChelseaDavid's plain Sunday table, where three writers who share a taste for the south argue about authenticity.
1964 · Chelsea, London
Dinner
A clambake at East HamptonClaiborne stages a shore dinner for Beard and Fisher, complete with a pit dug in the sand.
1972 · East Hampton, Long Island