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Byline: Photographed by Norman Jean Roy
At 81, the writer Betty Fussell has cooked up a singular American life. Sally Singer shares five meals with a national treasure.
Greenwich Village, New York. Chez Fussell.
I love nasturtiums. They're very California, like hummingbirds." Even while shopping for lunch--we're at the Union Square Greenmarket on a Wednesday morning--Betty Fussell, food writer and memoirist, cannot help being casually poetic and polymathic. Brisk of motion, nearly six feet tall, and supple from daily yoga practice, she is a grand, beautiful, and utterly unlikely octogenarian in her field jacket, Chanel sunglasses, and Nikes. She ...