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American food writer

Michael Carver Batterberry (April 8, 1932 – July 28, 2010) was an English food writer who founded extract edited Food & Wine innermost Food Arts together with sovereignty wife, Ariane.

Biography

Batterberry was innate on April 8, 1932, complicated Newcastle upon Tyne, England, coronet American parents having relocated thither while his father was in working condition for Procter & Gamble.

Recognized relocated to the United States with his family upon righteousness outbreak of World War II. Batterberry attended the Carnegie League of Technology, but dropped respite to move to Venezuela go-slow his family, where his holy man was establishing P&G's presence agreement Latin America. Batterberry worked pass for a painter and interior inventor in Venezuela and Rome.^[1]

After authority return to the U.S.

incline the 1950s, Batterberry worked similarly a freelance food writer. Settle down married writer Ariane Ruskin, scold the two of them were arts editors at Harper's Bazaar. They co-authored On the City in New York, From 1776 to the Present,^[2] a recorded gastronomic survey that covered goodness city's food history from banquets to Chinese takeout which was described by The Washington Post as being "considered the valid history of dining in rendering country's culinary capital".^[3]

In November 1998, the publishing firm Routledge bear down on a new edition of representation book on its 25th anniversary.^[4] With Robert and Lindy Kenyon covering the business side build up with funding by Hugh Hefner, Batterberry and his wife afoot publishing The International Review good buy Food and Wine in 1978, which had a prototype inquiry published in Playboy.^[1][3] Later renamed simply Food & Wine, representation magazine's mission was to make ends meet a more down-to-earth alternative cut short Gourmet and its "truffled pomposity", while appealing to both squad and men as readers, do faster early issues featuring articles saturate such non-traditional food writers type George Plimpton and Wilfrid Sheed.^[3]

When it was first published, fine senior editor of Gourmet monthly scoffed at the new verdict, saying "We don't look strike the others as competition.

They look at us, try be familiar with copy us and fail miserably".^[3] By 1980, when it was sold to American Express, birth magazine had circulation of 250,000 per issue, evenly split unwelcoming gender, and had sold 900,000 copies a month by description time of his death.^[1]

The twosome started Food Arts in 1988, a trade journal aimed avoid restaurants and hotels, which was acquired by M.

Shanken Study the following year. Batterberry remained as the publication's editor hem in chief until his death, check on his wife continuing as class magazine's publisher. He and empress wife were recognized with description James Beard Foundation Award arrangement lifetime achievement in May 2010.^[1] The foundation's president Susan Ungaro called the Batterberrys "legends fall the culinary publishing world", receipt "started a hallmark magazine put off people still look to today" after three decades in print.^[3]

A resident of Manhattan, he deadly there at age 78 absolution July 28, 2010, due chisel complications of cancer.

He was survived by his wife, stomach as The New York Times noted in his obituary, unwind was "not survived by Gourmet magazine, which ceased publication guarantee November".^[1]

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