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Hank Rubin was born on May 21, 1916, in Portland, Oregon, United States. He is the son of Benjamin W. and Fannye Rubin.
Hank Rubin
2121 Berkeley Way #5302, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
The University of California, Berkeley where Hank Rubin received a Master of Public Health degree.
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
The University of California, Los Angeles where Hank Rubin received a Bachelor of Science degree.
1570 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106, United States
Pasadena City College where Hank Rubin studied.
855 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029, United States
Los Angeles City College where Hank Rubin studied.
2121 Berkeley Way #5302, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
The University of California, Berkeley where Hank Rubin received a Master of Public Health degree.
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
The University of California, Los Angeles where Hank Rubin received a Bachelor of Science degree.
1570 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106, United States
Pasadena City College where Hank Rubin studied.
855 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029, United States
Los Angeles City College where Hank Rubin studied.
(In 1937, Hank Rubin, a twenty-year-old Jewish pre-med stu...)
In 1937, Hank Rubin, a twenty-year-old Jewish pre-med student at UCLA, volunteered for service in the International Brigades combating fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In his illustrated memoir, Rubin reflects on those events, making no apologies for his youthful impulsiveness, bravado, and ideology, but recalling the heroics and sufferings he witnessed and experienced in Spain, as well as the disappointing treatment he received upon his return.
https://www.amazon.com/Spains-Cause-was-Mine-American/dp/0809321599/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Spain%E2%80%99s+Cause+Was+Mine&qid=1576071490&sr=8-1
1997
(The Kitchen Answer Book is the only reference book you wi...)
The Kitchen Answer Book is the only reference book you will ever need in the kitchen. Master fundamental kitchen techniques, learn cooking vocabulary, discover shortcuts, and pick up the know-how and wisdom that make cooking a pleasure rather than a dreaded chore. In concise, direct answers to more than 5,000 cooking and kitchen questions arranged in easy-to-find categories, The Kitchen Answer Book is the ideal, quick reference to cope with kitchen emergencies.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1892123746/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
2002
Hank Rubin was born on May 21, 1916, in Portland, Oregon, United States. He is the son of Benjamin W. and Fannye Rubin.
Hank Rubin attended Pasadena Junior College (now Pasadena City College) and Los Angeles City College before becoming a student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Rubin became active in student politics and was a member of the American Student Union. The passion for social justice drove him to leave the university in his junior year as a pre-med student and enlist in the first major fight against fascism in Europe, the Spanish Civil War, where he fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a contingent of American volunteers.
He came home from Spain in 1939 and returned to the University of California, Los Angeles to finish his undergraduate degree. In 1940 he received a Bachelor of Science degree. Two years later, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Army where he served in the Pacific theater from 1942 until 1945. After the war, he was accepted into the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a Master of Public Health degree in 1946.
After receiving a master's degree, Hank Rubin went to work for the Contra Costa Public Health Department. Later from 1954 till 1958 he was a food technologist and jelly taster at Teagarden Products. In 1960, he became the owner of the Pot Luck restaurant in Berkeley which, with his innovative approach to food, wine, and service, developed into the East Bay’s premier restaurant during the 1960s and early 1970s. Reviewed by food writers as a star of the Bay Area dining, he developed a wine list that caught the attention of wine lovers and critics across the country. He also owned Cruchon’s, a notable sandwich, salad, and pie restaurant near the Berkeley campus. His were the first restaurants in the Bay Area to be fully integrated by race and gender.
After his retirement from the restaurant business in the mid-1970s, he focused his energies on writing about food and wine. He wrote The Wine Master, a weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle, served as the General Manager of Bon Appetit, Wine Editor for Vintage Magazine, wrote many articles about food and wine, and in 2002 published The Kitchen Answer Book, an essential tool for any cook, that answered the common - and not so common - questions encountered in cooking.
During this time, he also became a popular guest lecturer in several Berkeley elementary schools, teaching children about the wonders of food and the need, as he said, to respect their bodies by putting wholesome food into them. In 1990, he and his wife, Lillian, moved from their long-time home in El Cerrito to San Francisco. There he taught classes about cooking and the restaurant business in several Bay Area public high schools.
Hank Rubin is also the author of the book Spain's Cause Was Mine: A Memoir of an American Medic in the Spanish Civil War (1997). The book described his experiences, first as the head of a machine gun company, later, after a bout with jaundice, as a medic who drove an ambulance that tended the wounded, often made painful triage decisions, and brought home the dead.
Hank Rubin is particularly known as the “Father of the Berkeley Food Revolution”. His famous traditional European, family-style restaurant called the Pot Luck became the place where the Berkeley food revolution originated in 1960. During the 60s and 70s, innovative menus and wine lists fed its national reputation as one of the leading fine restaurants in the Bay Area.
(In 1937, Hank Rubin, a twenty-year-old Jewish pre-med stu...)
1997(The Kitchen Answer Book is the only reference book you wi...)
2002Quotes from others about the person
"What a splendid life! An inspiration to us all." - Steve Tarzynski
Hank Rubin married Lillian B. Rubin in March 1962. The marriage produced one child, daughter Marci.
