Richard Olney

Richard Olney was born in Marathon, Iowa, in 1927 and trained as a painter in Iowa and Paris. In the 1950s he settled on a hillside in Provence, where he cooked from the market and the garden and began to write about food with unusual precision.

The French Menu Cookbook (1970) and Simple French Food (1974) made his reputation, and he edited the influential Time-Life The Good Cook series. He was a demanding, sensual writer who cared more about technique and appetite than about fashion, and he cooked often for friends including Julia Child and M.F.K. Fisher.

He lived in Provence until his death in 1999, and his books remain a standard for anyone who wants to understand French country cooking from the inside.

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