Best Known for her The Story of Corn, Betty Fussell is the author of twelve books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir. Her essays on food travel and the arts had appeared in scholarly journals, national magazines and newspapers over the past 40 years. She has lectured throughout the country from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to Iowa's State Fair. Her many awards include the IACP's Jane Grigson Award, Food Art's Silver Spoon Award, James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award and Who's Who in Food & Beverage. She has taught food writing, food history and food preparation at universities, colleges, culinary schools and cooking stores across the United States and in Mexico. Her memoir, My Kitchen Wars, was performed in Hollywood and New York as a one-woman show by actress Dorothy Lyman. Her most recent book is Eat, Live, Love, Die: Selected Essays, published in 2016 by Counterpoint Press. She is completing a second memoir titled How to Cook a Coyote: A Manual of Survival.
Betty Fussell
Studios
Phi Beta
Betty Fussell worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…