About Charles Thompson

I first understood the meaning of great food in 1979 while living in France, and cooking for a French family. Using Julia Child’s ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’ I learned to cook a la française. Since those early days I have worked in such restaurants as Jeremiah Tower’s Stars in San Francisco, the Santa Fe Bar & Grill in Berkeley, Brendan Walsh’s Arizona 206 in New York, and Restaurant Muse in Los Angeles. I was also a cheese buyer at the Oakville Grocery in San Francisco, and the DDL Foodshow in New York. I have traveled and eaten my way through Europe, Mexico, South America and the Far East. I recently decided to write about my career, experiences and travels in the food world. Currently I work as a marketing consultant for Universal Pictures, a Hollywood movie studio. I live in Los Angeles; and I am at work on my first novel.

Website

www.100miles.com

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Twitter Account

CharlesGT

Favorite Foods

pork, cheese, Mexican, French, asparagus, artichokes

Favorite Food Writers

MFK Fisher, Jeremiah Tower, Ruth Reichl, Judy Rodgers, Julia Child

Dream Dinner Guests

Escoffier, Fernand Point, Jeremiah Tower

I call myself a…

writer, food blogger, cook, traveler, gardener