Florence Fabricant has been writing about food for the New York Times since 1972. She has watched farm-to-table go from fringe idea to cliché, lived through the rise of the celebrity chef, and outlasted most of the restaurants she ever wrote about.
This week, Florence joined my dad and me to talk about her new memoir, Salty, Not Sweet: A Life in the Food World — a book she resisted writing for years and then couldn’t stop once she started. We chatted about how André Soltner at Lutèce changed the way Americans thought about chefs, why food journalism has never been more democratized and never less rigorous, and the writeup she considers among her most consequential: a pitch about pigs in blankets that may have permanently changed the hors d’oeuvres table at every bar mitzvah and gala in America.
Also! We are giving away a copy of Florence’s memoir. To enter, write a review of our podcast on Apple, screenshot it, and email it to food@markbittman.com. That’s it! Giveaway closes on Wednesday, October 14.
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