Reardon, Joan

Culinary historian, cookbook author, and biographer Joan Reardon is the author of M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, "M.F.K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans, "Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher, and Oysters: a Culinary Celebration. Reardon, who has aPhD in English literature, won an IACP Award for culinary writing, publishes and edits a quarterly newsletter for Les Dames d Escoffier Chicago, and serves on the advisory board of Gastronomica magazine.