Famous food writers and the art of good eating
World Service,Β·6 episodes
The French 18th Century magistrate diner and writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The 1930s Italian writer FT Marinetti who dined and argued his way across Europe
Food writer MFK Fisher who invented the theory of gastro-planetary conjunction
Elizabeth David helped revitalise home cooking in Britain
Cook and writer Alan Davidson who dedicated his culinary life to fish
Canadian Margaret Visser whose most famous book on food doesn't contain a single recipe