Item description for Phylis Magida 1973 Eating Drinking Thinking Gourmet Perspective Cookbook *SIGNED

USED BOOK. Vintage. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author to family members.

Authors, Creators: Magida, Phylis / THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR / with Marcia Frankel and Sherwod Fohrman

Title, Details: Eating Drinking and Thinking : A Gourmet Perspective

A Cookbook / Recipe Collection / Compilation of Fresh Ideas, Traditional / Regional Fare, Comprehensive Cooking Instructions & Techniques explained

-- Hardback book in original dust cover. Good used, with some defects. See photos. As is.

Vintage book, some slight water stains. Dj has slight fading, book has some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book; and in a fair to good Dust Jacket with some edge wear and slight chipping. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand.

Signed by author: Reads: To my very dear Aunt Martha and Uncle Al, with much love, Phylis Magida.

Condition: Used, typical wear, some water stains on dust cover, some fade to dust cover, chipping edges, and some bleed from end papers on a few pages, otherwise cleaned and also SIGNED by the author. SEE PICTURES Please.

-- Defects: YES. read above.

Related Details: About the author: Phyllis Magida was a food writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune for more than a decade who wrote books about food, including cookbooks.

She also taught at Chicago Public Schools and played piano at Second City’s children’s theater.

“She had a great spirit and was a wonderful writer,” said David Dolson, the former editor of the Tribune’s Taste section and Magida’s first editor at the paper. “She was a very entertaining writer.”

Magida, 79, died of natural causes Aug. 3 in her Edgewater home in Chicago, said her son, Andrew Goldberg. She previously had lived in Evanston and on the North Side, he said.

Born in Chicago, Magida grew up in Albany Park and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Chicago. After spending one year at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Magida transferred to Roosevelt University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English.

Right out of college, Magida taught at Senn High School in Chicago for several years in the late 1950s and early 1960s. After marrying, Magida stopped teaching and soon began working as a freelance writer, authoring articles for Gourmet magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Good Food Section and Chicago magazine.

“She was a great writer. Her work was lyrical,” said former Sun-Times food editor Camille Stagg, a close friend who was Magida’s editor at the Sun-Times. “She was extremely energetic and positive. And she had a lot of discipline and was very thorough. She was enthusiastic about learning new things and experiences.”

While freelancing for the Sun-Times in the early 1970s, Magida wrote her first book, “Eating, Drinking and Thinking: A Gourmet Perspective,” which explored the spiritual and intellectual aspects of food. The book was a collection of essays — complete with recipes — on topics including mushrooms, wine and gastronomy, along with quotes from historical figures.

Magida went on to write about a dozen other books — all cookbooks — including coauthoring the popular “The Complete Fish on the Grill” and “Poultry on the Grill” with Barbara Grunes.

In 1978, Magida began writing for the Tribune’s Taste section, authoring articles in a series known as “After 5 Cook,” in which she would interview working people about the meals they would prepare after work — and provide a recipe. Over the next 14 years, she penned food-related stories on everything from cherries and pears to chocolate malted milk and gingerbread.

Magida also authored the Tribune’s Cooks’ Dialogue column, in which readers would query the paper on food-related topics like how best to use Spanish saffron, how to make rocky road ice cream or where to find quail eggs. And she would prepare and test recipes in the paper’s test kitchen.

But Magida’s work at the Tribune wasn’t limited to food. She also penned feature stories on topics like popular new board games and braceless techniques to straighten teeth, and she previewed plays and other weekend activities. In her later years at the Tribune, Magida wrote suburban-oriented features.

“When she got done with (something), she would make it just a great read,” Dolson said.

While at the Tribune, Magida furthered her education, earning a master’s degree in education from National Louis University. Then, after taking an early retirement package from the Tribune in the early 1990s, Magida returned to the classroom as a science teacher at Funston Elementary School on the Northwest Side.

“She encouraged a lot of these kids and did a lot of what she could do to help them further their education,” her son said. “It was a mission. Now, granted, these were kids who were 6, 7, 8 years old, but she embraced this. It was the embodiment of her approach.”

After about 10 years at Funston, Magida retired from teaching, her son said.

An animal lover, Magida gave up meat and animal products for roughly the last three decades of her life, her son said. While the move might seem unusual for someone who had been a food writer, it underscored Magida’s love of animals, her son said. (Source - Chicago Tribune.)

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