1. Betty Ellen Fussell is an American writer and is the author of 12 books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir.
17 Facts About Betty Fussell
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Betty Fussell married her college sweetheart Paul Fussell in 1949 and had two children, Rosalind and Sam Fussell.
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Betty Fussell has traveled widely throughout Europe, the Near East, Africa, India, China, Russia, Latin America, Southeast Asia.
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Betty Fussell's thesis focused on English Tragicomedy in the Renaissance.
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From 1952 to 1978 Betty Fussell taught courses in English Literature, specializing in Shakespeare and the literature of comedy, drama, and film at a variety of colleges and universities, including Connecticut College, Douglass College, Rutgers University, and the New School University.
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Betty Fussell began teaching classes focusing on food writing and food history beginning in 1993 at Columbia University, the French Culinary Institute, NYU's Food Studies program, and the New School University's Food Studies department.
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Early on in her career, Betty Fussell edited many of her former husband Paul Betty Fussell's works of literary criticism and military history.
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Betty Fussell briefly held a position as an editorial consultant for Atlantic Monthly Press.
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Betty Fussell has frequently appeared on national and cable networks, including the start-up of the Food Network.
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Betty Fussell's career began with her biography of silent film comedian Mabel Normand.
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Betty Fussell moved from writing about the history of film to the history of food in both short and long form.
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Betty Fussell has published countless articles in both popular and academic outlets and authored 12 books.
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Betty Fussell is a noted expert on the history of corn.
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Betty Fussell has written extensively on the subject and devoted two books to corn: The Story of Corn and Crazy for Corn.
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Betty Fussell won the Julia Child Cookbook Award in 1993 and the James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award.
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Betty Fussell was inducted into the Beard Foundation's Who's Who in American Food and Beverage in 2009.
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Betty Fussell won the IACP's Jane Grigson Award for Scholarship in 1993 and the Amelia Award of the Culinary Historians of New York in 2010.