A Note About the Author

CRAIG CLAIBORNE was born September 4, 1920 in Sunflower, Mississippi, and grew up in Indianola. He attended Mississippi State and was graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

For several years he worked in public relations in Chicago, then served in the Navy during the Korean War. Following his discharge, he enrolled in the Swiss Hotelkeepers’ Association School in Lausanne from which he graduated eighth in a class of sixty. Upon returning to the United States he worked for Gourmet magazine and for a public relations firm specializing in food accounts until 1957, when he was hired as Food Editor of The New York Times. In that position he became a nationwide authority on food; appearing frequently in magazines and on television.