John Birdsall is a two-time James Beard Award-winning author, a former food critic, and longtime restaurant cook. He is coauthor of a cookbook, Hawker Fare, with James Syhabout. He lives in Tucson.
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In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the 'Dean of American Cookery' to give voice to the gourmet's complex, queer... SEE MORE