Jeffrey Rock Garden

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Jeffrey Rock Garden (2011)

Jeffrey L. Steingarten (* 1945 in Hewlett Neck, Long Island , New York ) is an American lawyer and food critic . Rock garden became popular through his gastrosophic columns in the fashion magazine Vogue , which he also published in books.

biography

Rock garden grandfather was a grocer in the Lower East Side in New York City , his father worked as a lawyer for property law . He grew up with his sister Lois in Hewlett Neck, NY in Nassau County . During a trip to France with his parents, his interest in the art of cooking was aroused over a soufflé . He studied law at Harvard Law School until his exams in 1968. During his studies, he discovered his joy in humorous writing and became editor of the university satirical magazine The Harvard Lampoon . In the 1960s he was a regular viewer of the first American cooking show with Julia Child . Her studio was at his place of study in Cambridge , he cooked her dishes and bought the ingredients wherever she went. A lifelong friendship developed from this.

1977 gave him the present deputies in the US House of Representatives , Barney Frank , as an assistant to then- Boston he Mayor Kevin White. He initially researched the relationship between poverty and mental health legislation. He then practiced as a lawyer in Manhattan . With increasing professional success, he was able to afford culinary trips around the world. Through friends he became acquainted in 1988 with the British journalist Anna Wintour , who was then chief editor of House & Garden magazine . They agreed that he should write a 500 to 800 word article on the question of whether fish can really be cooked in a microwave oven . After trying twelve stoves, his essay grew to 4,200 words, which Wintour accepted. When she switched to Vogue in 1989, Steingarten gave up his practice and from then on worked as a gastronomy critic at Vogue. Since 1996 he has also been writing for the online magazine Slate .

Steingarten creates reports on his culinary trips and visits to numerous chefs. Nevertheless, he does not consider himself a gourmet snob who is only fond of gourmandise (feasting), but also confronted food that he initially hated (e.g. gimchi ). In his essays, he also describes attempts to cook and perfect special dishes (e.g. turducken , coq au vin, etc.). He also reports on the history of various well-known dishes (e.g. Caesar salad ). Steingarten's striving for culinary perfection is so pronounced that he also devotes a lot of time and effort to finding the best ingredient (e.g. types of salt ) or the best preparation of a particular food (e.g. baguettes ). His essays were therefore read as “research reports” in the German magazine stern , stating that Steingarten was “an Alexander von Humboldt of the culinary world, who chewed and tasted a delicacy to the source.”

Not only his columns met with great interest, his personality was also the subject of reports. He regularly appears as a jury member on the cooking show Iron Chef America , where he judges the chefs' dishes with accuracy and vehemence. In 1998 he was on the jury of the "Grand Prix de la Baguette" de la Ville de Paris. His German colleague Jürgen Dollase praises his detailed knowledge and entertaining style on the one hand, but misses sobriety and objectivity in Steingarten's love of tales. Wolfram Siebeck , on the other hand, considers Steingarten's style and "thorough" information to be "self-evident, journalistic virtues that you would not necessarily find in our gourmet magazines or in the FAZ ."

In 1977 he married Caron Smith and in 1998 she accepted a position at the San Diego Museum of Art , where she worked as a curator for Asian art. Today she works at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. Rock Garden lives in New York's Flatiron District , a suburb of Manhattan . In his loft there is not only his cooking laboratory but also a comprehensive gastrosophic library 15 m long and 4.50 m high and other book stacks.

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Quote

"This gentleman has everything that characterizes good American journalism: a wealth of facts, self-irony, wit, fantasy, art of formulating without blasphemy."

- Armin Thurnher , 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alex Witchel: “A Perfectionist Does It His Way”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , New York Times , December 4, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / query.nytimes.com  
  2. ↑ Rock garden in his "Kochlabor" , Saisonküche, No. 11, 2008
  3. ↑ a b c Bert Gamerschlag: "Blossoms in the Rock Garden" , stern , 23 September 2004
  4. ↑ a b Linda Grant , "Food Obsession," Harvard Law Bulletin, Fall 2000
  5. ↑ Product Search rockery , slate.com
  6. ↑ For example: Lorraine Kreahling: “A Food Critic Who's No Amateur When It Comes to the Kitchen,” New York Times, March 29, 1998
    Amanda Hesser: “Food Diary; The Regal Gourmet ” , New York Times, September 2, 2001
    Alex Witchel: “ A Perfectionist Does It His Way ”  (     page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , New York Times, December 4, 2002 Bert Gamerschlag: "Blossoms in the Rock Garden" , stern , September 23, 2004, paid Sacha Verna: "Everything began with a soufflé" , Saisonküche, No. 11, 2008, report, (PDF- File; 38 kB) Sacha Verna: Jeffrey Steingarten: "Gruffed, not diced?"  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Die Weltwoche , 2006, No. 27@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / query.nytimes.com  


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  7. ↑ Lorraine Kreahling, “A Food Critic Who's No Amateur When It Comes to the Kitchen,” New York Times, March 29, 1998
  8. ^ "Taste uncertainty before caviar" , FAZ , August 18, 2006
  9. ↑ Wolfram Siebeck : "Spiritual Food" , Die Zeit , No. 49, November 2004
  10. ↑ Dr. Caron Smith  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Panache Magazine , 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.panachemag.com  
  11. ↑ Armin Thurnher : Review: The man who eats everything , Falter , October 6, 2004, No. 41, p. 60
personal data
SURNAME Rock garden, Jeffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rock Garden, Jeffrey L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American food critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Hewlett Neck, Long Island , New York