Ken Albala
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| Intro | Professor | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Writer Professor | |
| Work field | Academia Literature | |
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| Birth | 3 November 1964, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA | |
| Age | 60 years | |
| Star sign | Scorpio |
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Biography
Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific (United States) He has authored or edited 25 books on food and co-authored "The Lost Art of Real Cooking" and "The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home." Albala co-edited the journal "Food, Culture and Society" and has made numerous appearances in media and at conferences discussing food issues He is featured on the DVD: "Food: A Cultural Culinary History." Albala is also known for his "Food Cultures Around the World" series for Greenwood Press and Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy.
Awards
- "Three World Cuisines: Italian, Mexican, Chinese" was the winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for “Best Foreign Cuisine Book in the World” 2013.
- "Beans" won the 2008 International Association of Culinary Professionals Jane Grigson Award and the Cordon d’Or in Food History/Literature.