Johannes van Dam
Johannes van Dam (Amsterdam 9 October 1946 - Amsterdam 18 September 2013) was a Dutch journalist and the country's best-known writer on food.[citation needed] Van Dam wrote a regular column on food for the national daily Het Parool for almost 25 years.
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Van Dam studied medicine and psychology and worked in the newspaper business from 1967 to 1981 (for Het Vrije Volk and Haagse Post), before running a cookbook store in Amsterdam, in 1983. In 1986 he started writing a column on food for the Dutch weekly Elsevier, and in 1989 sold the bookstore and began writing full-time, for Het Parool and the Belgian daily De Morgen in addition to Elsevier. He published a book on food, De Dikke Van Dam, in 2005. He died in an Amsterdam hospital in 2013 after suffering for some time from health problems, including diabetes.[1] His biography, written by Jeroen Thijssen, was published on November 9, 2018.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Culinair journalist Johannes van Dam overleden". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 18 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ Jeroen Thijssen (November 2018). Johannes van Dam - De biografie. Nieuw Amsterdam. pp. 318 pag. ISBN 9789046824504.
External links
[edit]- "Johannes van Dam in eigen woorden: 'Ik ben geen betweter. Ik wéét dat ik het beter weet'" [Johannes van Dam in his own words: 'I am not a know-it-all. I just know that I know it all.]. de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 19 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- Saving Johannes Story about Johannes van Dam by the Amsterdam-based American poet & writer Eddie Woods.