Florence fabricant biography

          Florence Fabricant is a food critic and food writer.

        1. Fabricant is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, with an M.A. in French from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
        2. Florence Fabricant is a.
        3. A prolific cookbook author and the longest-running food writer for the New York Times.
        4. Florence Fabricant is a storied food writer, having begun her career writing for The East Hampton Star before moving on to a highly successful, ongoing run at.

          5. Florence Fabricant is a..

          A Life of Culinary Exploration

          Florence Fabricant, food writer for The New York Times and author of 11 (soon to be 12) cookbooks, remembers having lunch with her father when she was 8 years old at Le Cafe Chambord at La Cote Basque, one of the most elegant restaurants in Manhattan until it closed in 1964.

          “It was a storefront,” she recalled, “and in the window were champagne bottles of all the different sizes — there were 12, not including half bottles — and the ritual was that I had to name each of those sized bottles before I could go into the restaurant.”

          Ms.

          Fabricant, who said that her parents were foodies “at a time when the term didn’t exist,” has many such food-related memories from her childhood. “When I was little, when we went to a Chinese restaurant, I was very careful about how much soy sauce I put in the egg drop soup because it had to have just the right amount of saltiness and color.”

          As a teenager, watching Dione Lucas make a strudel on television, she t