Deborah Duchon

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Deborah A. Duchon (1949-2019) was an American anthropologist[1] and Food Network personality. She was also the Director of Nutrition Education for New Americans Project and Director of the Center for Research and Anthropology at Georgia State University.

Early life[]

Deborah Duchon was born on June 24, 1949 in Covington, Kentucky, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She later attended Ohio University, graduating in 1971. She later received her MA in Anthropology from Georgia State University.[2]

Career[]

Duchon co-founded the company Attorneys' Personal Services with her husband Paul Tamaroff soon after their marriage in 1988. Her later work in Anthropology was described in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as, "work in instructing emergency workers including police and first responders in cross cultural communication, and food related nutritional guidance".[2] Her academic work as a researcher and teacher at Georgia State also focused on the Hmong people of Southeast Asia within their expat community in the United States.[1] At the university she also served as the Director of Nutrition Education for New Americans Project, a joint group hosted by both the Geography and Anthropology departments,[3] as well as the Director of the Center for Research and Anthropology.[4] She was also the founder of Culinary Historians of Atlanta.[5]

She is perhaps best known for her recurring role on the Food Network series Good Eats.[6][7] She also appeared on NPR's radio show Morning Edition.[8]

Death[]

Duchon died as the result of brain cancer on October 14, 2019.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Kathy Fackelmann (May 15, 1993). "Food, drug, or poison?". Science & Technology.
  2. ^ a b c "Deborah Duchon: Obituary". The Atlanta Constitution-Journal. October 10, 2019. p. 31.
  3. ^ Latino Workers in the Contemporary South. University of Georgia Press. 2001. p. 137.
  4. ^ Madeleine M. Leininger, Marilyn R. McFarland (2006). Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory. Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 328.
  5. ^ John Kessler (August 11, 2012). "Holding mayo to the test". Atlanta Constitution-Journal.
  6. ^ Doreen Shababy (2010). The Wild & Weedy Apothecary: An A to Z Book of Herbal Concoctions, Recipes & Remedies, Practical Know-How & Food for the Soul. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. i.
  7. ^ Elaine Jackson Cape (November 19, 2008). "Recipes can provide modern folk with taste of first feast in Plymouth Colony: Take a journey back almost four centuries to get a glimpse of how the early Colonists and Wampanoag". The Daily Gazette.
  8. ^ LINDA WERTHEIMER (July 3, 2012). "Before There Was Writing, There Were Pies". NPR.
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