Annual Cookbook Issue : Investment Picks
Anyone interested in cookbooks knows enough to hang on to anything written by M.F.K. Fisher or Elizabeth David. Their works are already considered classics. Books by the late Helen Evans Brown, Jane Grigson, Waverly Root, James Beard and Vincent Price are also very collectible. (Price’s books aren’t just wanted for his celebrity name, but for his recipes--they actually work.)
We asked cookbook dealers to speculate which contemporary food writers might one day become classic. The following list, in no particular order, was compiled from their responses.
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Julia Child
Jacqueline Higuera McMahan
Richard Olney
Paula Wolfert
Marcella Hazan
Alice Waters
Diana Kennedy
Jean-George Vongerichten
Jane and Michael Stern
Calvin Trillen
Edna Lewis
Carol Field
Marion Cunningham
Nancy Silverton
Dean Fearing
Perla Meyers
James Peterson
Claudia Roden
Copeland Marks
Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Alan Davidson