George Rector
20c American food writer and restaurateur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Rector (1878-1947) was a restaurateur, raconteur and food authority who wrote several cookbooks in the 1920s and '30s. He appeared on radio on the Columbia Broadcasting System in Dine with George Rector[1] and played himself in at least one movie, Every Day's a Holiday (1937), with Mae West.[2]
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George Rector | |
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Born | 1878 |
Died | 1947 (aged 68–69) |
Occupation | Resturanteer |
Subject | Food |
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In the introduction to his 1939 book, Home on the Range, Rector described himself as "a sort of food representative at large", as well as an "author of several books, of a series of Saturday Evening Post articles, and of a column published by 22 newspapers—been filmed—talked to the national radio audience".