https://www.saltshaker.net/20120525/craig-the-book Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:41:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.saltshaker.net/20120525/craig-the-book#comment-240978 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 23:34:31 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=7849#comment-240978 […] About 13 years ago I had the opportunity to spend an afternoon with Craig Claiborne. For those who don’t know who he was, he was probably the most influential restaurant critic who has ever written in the United States. Why? Basically, he was the first true restaurant & food critic for a major newspaper. Not that others hadn’t written about such things, but he raised it to an art form, and, he worked for the New York Times. He was also openly gay. Craig died in 2000. There’s no particular reason for this column, which was written 13 years ago, to pop up now, except it was never published, and I ran across it while I was looking through some of my files. Re-reading it brought back the memory of a wonderful afternoon earlier in my career, and I thought I’d share it here. Parts of this interview, both what’s reproduced below and more, were used by Tom McNamee in his book The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance, which I’ve reviewed over on my SaltShaker blog. […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20120525/craig-the-book#comment-212653 Fri, 25 May 2012 19:40:53 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=7849#comment-212653 Interesting observations particularly of course with reference to the “prurient details’. A close friend of mine is a historian/biographer and will be interested no doubt.

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