F&B LA 2018

Linda Civitello, Ph.D.
Author



Linda Civitello, Ph.D., is the author of Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking, which the Smithsonian magazine named One of the Ten Best Food Books of 2017. She is also the author of Cuisine & Culture: A History of Food and People, winner of the Gourmand award for Best Food History Book in English (U.S.), and which is used to teach food history in culinary schools. A frequent speaker on a wide range of food history topics, from “James Bond, Foodie” to the “History of Mother’s Day,” Linda has also been a Food and Art consultant for the Getty Museum, spoken at Harvard University, on the BBC, and before the American Chemical Society. She also cooks professionally.

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