Food in the Air and Space

by Richard Foss

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  About the Author

  Richard Foss has been writing about food and drink since 1986, when he became the restaurant reviewer for the Los Angeles Reader Newspaper. Since then he has written for more than twenty different publications, both journalistic and academic, authored a book on the history of rum, and written scholarly articles for the Encyclopedia of World Food Cultures and the Oxford Companion to Sweets. He is currently on the board of the Culinary Historians of Southern California and is the California Curator for the Museum of the American Cocktail and the SoFAB Institute.