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University of Texas at Austin.
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Linda Eckhardt
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She was the first food editor of Texas Monthly (since 1973). (since 2011), and a contributor to today.com. Raised in Hereford, Texas, Linda West took a Bachelor of Surgery 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 Master of Fine Arts 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.
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1991: Julia Child Award for Best Book of the Year, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Bread in Half the Time 1998: James Beard Award for Best Entertaining Cookbook, Entertaining 101 1999: James Beard Award nomination for best single subject cookbook "Stylish One dish Dinners" 2001: James Beard award nomination for radio "I know what you ate last summer" The Food & Wine Radio network 2005: Whose Who in American University Women.
Personality
She is an independent consultant on food and traveling
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American
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1991: Julia Child Award for Best Book of the Year, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Bread in Half the Time 1998: James Beard Award for Best Entertaining Cookbook, Entertaining 101 1999: James Beard Award nomination for best single subject cookbook "Stylish One dish Dinners" 2001: James Beard award nomination for radio "I know what you ate last summer" The Food & Wine Radio network 2005: Whose Who in American University Women1991: Julia Child Award for Best Book of the Year, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Bread in Half the Time 1998: James Beard Award for Best Entertaining Cookbook, Entertaining 101 1999: James Beard Award nomination for best single subject cookbook "Stylish One dish Dinners" 2001: James Beard award nomination for radio "I know what you ate last summer" The Food & Wine Radio network 2005: Whose Who in American University Women