Perry, Charles, 1941-

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Name (Latin)
Perry, Charles, 1941-
Date of birth
1941
Occupation
Food writers
Journalists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 29885227
Wikidata: Q22007387
Library of congress: n 83163864
TAU10: 000306326
Sources of Information
  • Glorious Trash blog, by Joe Kenney, August 27, 2018, viewed April 12, 2019(review of Smokestack El Ropo's Bedside Reader; Smokestack El Ropo a byline occasionally used in Rolling Stone magazine, usually on articles having to do with drug use; pseudonym of Rolling Stone editor Charles Perry; his photo is on back of book, though his identity was unknown at the time)
  • His The Haight-Ashbury, c1984:CIP t.p. (Charles Perry)
  • Hu-ssu-hui. A soup for the Qan, 2000:t.p. (Charles Perry) prelim. p. (BA; staff writer for the Los Angeles Times; pres. of the Culinary Historians of California)
  • Los Angeles Times website, 23 Oct. 2002:(Charles Perry, editor and staff writer, Food Section, Los Angeles Times; Princeton and University of Calif. at Berkeley studies in Near Eastern Languages; has worked at Rolling Stone, as a free-lance journalist, and the Los Angeles Times; co-founder of "Southern California Culinary Historians"; books include: The Haight-Ashbury (1984); Totally hot! The ultimate hot pepper cookbook (1986); forthcoming book an anthology of scholarly articles on medieval Arab food)
  • Phone call to pub., 10/20/83(Charles Perry; b. 1941, LA, Calif.; his 1st bk.)
  • Reading the Grateful Dead, 2012:page 46 (Smokestack El Ropo, pseudonym of Charles Perry)

Wikipedia description:

Charles Perry (born 1941) is an American food historian. He has translated several medieval cookbooks from Arabic to English and published widely on the history of food, particularly of the Middle East and California. He also authored or co-authored books about San Francisco in the 1960s, and was a prolific journalist for Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times and other publications.

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