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Isabel Cowles

Senior Writer

Isabel was a writer for findingDulcinea from spring 2007 until March 2009. Before joining the team, Isabel worked as a freelance editor for Alfred A. Knopf and harvested heirloom tomatoes from an organic farm. Isabel has a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Read TASTE, Isabel’s personal blog about her cooking-related trials and errors.

Favorite Web sites:
  Maps of War
  Food Network
  The Victory Garden 

Most Recent Articles by Isabel Cowles

  • Happy Birthday, Edwin Hubble, Influential Astronomer
    “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” The namesake for NASA’s most important telescope, Edwin Hubble has been called a modern-day Galileo. He identified multiple galaxies and helped to define the way in which the universe expands, providing evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • Happy Birthday, Osamu Tezuka, Japan’s “God of Comics”
    Osamu Tezuka has been called the “god of comics” in Japan. After writing his first comic strip in third grade, Tezuka published his first professional manga while studying at medical school. His innovations to the field of Japanese comics and animation are evident through the 700 works he produced, which include more than 150,000 pages of manga.
  • Happy Birthday, Auguste Escoffier, Innovative Chef and Inventor of the Chef's Hat
    Modern cuisine owes many of its practices to the great French chef Auguste Escoffier. In addition to inventing the chef’s hat, Escoffier changed public dining in hotels and restaurants worldwide by creating systematized kitchens, serving dishes in a specific order instead of all at once and emphasizing the freshness and flavor of the ingredients used. We celebrate Escoffier’s culinary vision on the anniversary of his birth.
  • Halloween Candy: Past and Present Favorites
    Make your house a favorite of trick-or-treaters with information about and links to suppliers of the most popular fruit-flavored and chocolate Halloween candies. You’ll also find resources for retro favorites and candy recipes. Put those treats in your bowl and get ready to answer the doorbell.
  • Planning a Halloween Party
    Spice up your Halloween party with help from a variety of Web sites that offer both traditional and original decorating, craft, costume, recipe and pumpkin-carving ideas.
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