Joan Nathan

Joan Nathan is an award-winning American cookbook author and newspaper journalist. She has produced TV documentaries on the subject of Jewish cuisine. She was a co-founder of New York's Ninth Avenue Food Festival under then-Mayor Abraham Beame.

Biography

Education

Joan Nathan was born in Providence, Rhode Island. After receiving a master's degree in French literature from the University of Michigan, she earned another master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1] As a newspaper food journalist she has visited, among other places, France and Brazil, uncovering new dishes or researching Jewish cuisine.

Israel

She lived in Israel for three years working for Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem.[2]

Television

She was executive producer and host of Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan, a PBS series based on her cookbook, Jewish Cooking in America.[1]

Marriage

Nathan is married to Allan Gerson, an attorney; the couple has three children. Gerson and Nathan divide their time between Washington, D.C. and Martha's Vineyard.[1]

Cookbooks

Nathan has written ten cookbooks, winning numerous awards for them. Six are about Jewish cuisine and two on Israeli cuisine. Her goal is to preserve Jewish traditions by interviewing cooks and documenting their recipes and stories for posterity.[3]

In 1985, An American Folklife Cookbook won the R.T. French Tastemaker Award (now the James Beard Award). The New American Cooking won the James Beard and IACP Awards for Food of the Americas and Best American Cookbook. She was guest curator of Food Culture USA at the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which was based on the research for her book.[1]

Two decades later, in 2005, Jewish Cooking in America won the Julia Child Award for Best Cookbook of the Year, and the James Beard Award (again) for Food of the Americas.[4]

Awards

In May 2011, Nathan received a Special Recognition Award from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for her contribution to preserving Jewish culture.[5]

Guest appearances

Other

In January 2009, she began choking on a piece of chicken at the Art.Food.Hope dinner in Washington, D.C. but was saved by chef Tom Colicchio, who performed the Heimlich maneuver.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "About Joan Nathan". Random House. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  2. ↑ Israeli Hanukkah
  3. ↑ "Cooking with chutzpah", Book Section, Haaretz
  4. ↑ Joan Nathan profile, New York Times, March 28, 2007.
  5. ↑ "YIVO 10th Annual Heritage Dinner" (PDF). YIVO. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  6. 1 2 "Joan Nathan: Book Fest 07". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  7. ↑ Denchak, Melissa. "Interview with TV Chef Joan Nathan". Food and Wine. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  8. ↑ "Hannukah with Joan Nathan". Episode CL9422. Food Network. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  9. ↑ "Joan Nathan: An Exotic Holiday Feast". NPR. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  10. ↑ Colicchio Uses Heimlich Maneuver to Save Cookbook Author Slash Food, January 19, 2009.
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