Linda West Eckhardt

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Linda West Eckhardt

Born September 29, 1939 Linda West Eckhardt was raised in Hereford, Texas. She is a culinary writer with 18 books to her credit. Her books have won the James Beard and Julia Child awards. She was the first food editor of Texas Monthly, founder and editor/publisher of Everybody Eats News, the online newspaper that monitors the sustainable food movement.

Eckhardt earned a B.S. in foods and nutrition at the University of Texas, and wrote the "Dining In" column for Texas Monthly, while raising a family in Houston. In the early 1980s she moved to Menlo Park, California, where she completed an M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University, then to Ashland, Oregon, where she began writing on cooking, dining, and travel, and was a columnist for The Oregonian. In the late 1990s, she moved to Maplewood, New Jersey, where she has collaborated on several books with her daughter, Katherine West Defoyd. She is an independent consultant on food and travel.

Linda was central to the first bread revolution in the early nineties with the Julia Child award-winning book "Bread in Half The Time" followed by the first edition of "Rustic European Breads," in which Linda broke the mold on how to make yeast breads. The methods they developed have become standard.

Resources:

West Texas History & Memories

Early Life in Texas County by County

Books about Texas People and Places

Amazing People from Texas County by County

Texas History in the 19th Century (Amazon)

Texas History by Category and Event

You know you are from Hereford, Texas when.....

Hereford

Books by Linda West Eckhardt

The Only Texas Cookbook

Stylish One-Dish Dinners: Stews, stir fry, family dinners, and entertaining friends