Georgeanne Brennan
Author and Journalist
Georgeanne Brennan is an award-winning cookbook author and journalist who has won national acclaim for her evoca-tive and lyrical writing about food and gastronomy. Her expertise ranges from farming and agriculture to history and food lore. Brennan grew up in southern California and was educated at San Diego State University, the University of Aix-Marseille in Provence, France, and UC San Diego, where she earned a master's degree in History. In 1970, she and her husband returned to southern France with their small daughter (their son was born there) and bought an old farmhouse where they made and sold goat cheese, and raised and sold feeder pigs for two years. They went on to take teaching jobs in northern California, although they've returned to France at least once a year thereafter.
In 1982, Brennan and a partner, Charlotte Glenn, started Le Marché Seeds, a national mail-order specialty vegetable seed company. With customers all over the United States, including emerging organic market growers, Le Marché was fea-tured in such magazines as Family Circle, Metropolitan Home, Organic Gardening and Vogue, as well as in the food and garden sections of numerous newspapers. Out of these activities came her first book, The New American Vegetable Cook-book (1984) co-authored with Isaac Cronin and Charlotte Glenn. In 2007 her food memoir, A Pig in Provence (Chronicle Books, 2007) was published to much acclaim. In addition to her books, Brennan writes regular features for The San Fran-cisco Chronicle newspaper's food section and is a regular contributor to Fine Cooking, Bon Appétit, and Cooking Pleas-ures. Additionally, she has taught food and memoir writing at the UC Berkeley and Davis Extensions.
Active in the Slow Food movement for many years, Brennan has served as a jury member for Slow Food International Award, a member of Slow Food's American Ark Selection Committee, and is currently co-leader of the Slow Food Yolo Con-vivium. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and of Les Dames d'Escoffier. Brennan lives with her husband on their small farm in northern California. They have four children.
