Joan Nathan

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Joan Nathan at the 2017 Gaithersburg Book Festival

Joan Nathan (born January 26, 1943 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is an American cookbook author who is particularly concerned with Jewish and Israeli cuisine. She writes regularly for the New York Times . Your books have received several awards.

Life

Raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Joan Nathan studied French literature at the University of Michigan and public administration at Harvard University ; She completed both courses with a master's degree. She moved to Israel in 1970 and worked for Teddy Kollek , the then mayor of Jerusalem , for three years . Here she became aware of the country's various culinary traditions and published her first book with Judy Stacey Goldman: The Flavor of Jerusalem (1975). In 1974, while working for Mayor Abraham Beame in New York , she co-founded the Ninth Avenue Food Festival.

Joan Nathan lives in Washington, DC and Martha's Vineyard ; she is married to Allan Gerson and has three children.

literature

  • Elizabeth S. Demers: Joan Nathan . In: Victor William Geraci, Elizabeth S. Demers (Eds.): Icons of American Cooking . Greenwood, Santa Barbara, 2010. ISBN 978-0-313-38132-4 , pp. 169-182.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joan Nathan. Recent and archived work by Joan Nathan for The New York Times. In: The New York Times. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Adeena Sussman: Profile: Joan Nathan. In: Hadassah Magazine. 2010, accessed July 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ About Joan. In: Joan Nathan. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nathan, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cookbook author
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island