Food blogger Elissa Altman, winner of the 2012 James Beard Award for Individual Food Blog, will be guest Thursday at the Westport Library.
Elissa Altman: learned fancy is always best. Contributed photo
At the 7 p.m. event, she will speak about her book, “Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking.” Altman’s book grew out of her blog of the same name.
Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and a food-fanatical father, she learned early that fancy is always best.
After a childhood spent dining at fine establishments she devoted her life to the gastronomical world. Then, she met and fell in love with a woman named Susan—a frugal, small-town Connecticut Yankee with a devotion to simple living.
Her relationship with food was changed forever. A food and cookbook editor as well as writer, Altman’s work has appeared in Saveur and The New York Times, Gilt Taste and the Huffington Post, and has twice been selected for inclusion in Best Food Writing.
