Craig Claiborne

"We believe you'll find the following recipe a perfect food idea for eight hungry Jedis."
―Copy accompanying Claiborne's recipe in the Scrantonian-Tribune[2]

Craig Claiborne was a restaurant critic and food writer. In 1983, to promote the radio drama The Empire Strikes Back, National Public Radio solicited Claiborne to create "Yoda's Incredible Herb Stew," his interpretation of the rootleaf stew that Yoda served Luke Skywalker in his hut on Dagobah. The recipe was printed in newspapers around the United States.[3] Its main ingredients are lamb, spinach, parsley, onions, and a lot of seasonings.[2] The end result looks rather swampy but its taste is most reminiscent of Indian cuisine.[4]

Claibourne worked as the food editor for The New York Times between 1957 and 1986, and in this position he is credited with introducing the much-imitated system of rating a restaurant out of four stars. He wrote numerous cookbooks, of which the best-known was The New York Times Cookbook, published in 1961. After his retirement from the Times he continued writing cookbooks. A notable later work was Craig Claibourne's Southern Cooking, inspired by the foods of his childhood in Mississippi.[1]

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Works

Year Title Contribution Notes
1983 Yoda's Incredible Herb Stew Writer Recipe published in many American newspapers

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Premium-Era-real Craig Claiborne, 79, Times Food Editor And Critic, Is Dead by Bryan Miller on The New York Times (January 24, 2000) (backup link archived on November 28, 2023)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Premium-Era-real Feed Young Jedis Yoda's Herb Stew on the Scrantonian-Tribune (archived at Newspapers.com) (February 13, 1983) (backup link archived on January 23, 2024)
  3. ↑ Premium-Era-real Yoda's Incredible Herb Stew on www.mkescene.com (backup link archived on August 11, 2020)
  4. ↑ Premium-Era-real Recipe: Yoda Stew on Living History in the Star Wars Galaxy: Applying the methods of historic reenacting to the Galaxy Far, Far Away (November 20, 2017) (backup link archived on January 23, 2024)

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