Icons of American Cooking is an edited collection of biographical essays to be published by ABC Clio in 2011. We are looking for contributors to write short articles of around 5000 words each on the lives, legacies, and iconic natures of such renowned chefs and food celebrities as:

Julia Child, Martha Stewart, James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Paul Prudhomme, the Culinary Institute of America, Alice Waters,, Jacques Pepin, Chuck Williams, Fanny Farmer/Marion Cunningham, The Joy of Cooking, Anthony Bourdain, Dan Barber, Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, Rachel Ray, Diana Kennedy, Mollie Katzen, Betty Crocker, Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Nina Zagat and Tim Zagat, Edna Lewis, and Ruth Reichl

We’d like to have all topics assigned by June 1, 2009. Essays will be due to the editors November 1, 2009. For more information, please contact

Victor W. Geraci, PhD --- Associate Director
Regional Oral History Office
The Bancroft Library
vgeraci@library.berkeley.edu
510-643-4786

Elizabeth Sherburn Demers
Senior Editor
elizabeth.demers@gmail.com
312-929-3782