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Michael Batterberry

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for lifetime achievement in May 2010. The foundation's president Susan Ungaro called the Batterberrys "legends in the culinary publishing world", having "started a hallmark magazine that people still look to today" after three decades in print.
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the following year. Batterberry remained as the publication's editor in chief until his death, with his wife continuing as the magazine's publisher. He and his wife were recognized with the
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magazine scoffed at the new alternative, saying "We don't look at the others as competition. They look at us, try to copy us and fail miserably". By 1980, when it was sold to
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and its "truffled pomposity", while appealing to both women and men as readers, with early issues featuring articles by such non-traditional food writers as
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issued a new edition of the book on its 25th anniversary. With Robert and Lindy Kenyon covering the business side and with funding by
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as being "considered the authoritative history of dining in the country's culinary capital".
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After his return to the U.S. in the 1950s, Batterberry worked as a freelance
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with his family, where his father was establishing P&G's presence in
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from banquets to Chinese takeout which was described by
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Ariane Ruskin Batterberry, Michael Batterberry (1973).
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aimed at restaurants and hotels, which was acquired by
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Index

Food & Wine
Food Arts
Newcastle upon Tyne
England
Procter & Gamble
World War II
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Venezuela
Latin America
Rome
food writer
Harper's Bazaar
the city's food history
The Washington Post
Routledge
Hugh Hefner
Playboy
Food & Wine
Gourmet
George Plimpton
Wilfrid Sheed
American Express
Food Arts
trade journal
M. Shanken Communications
James Beard Foundation Award
Manhattan
The New York Times

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