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Food For Thought.(Betty Fussell )(Interview)

Vogue

| August 01, 2008 | Singer, Sally | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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