About Copeland Marks
Lived 1921 – 1999 (aged 77–78). Copeland Marks was an American writer.
Copeland Harris Marks (1921–1999) was the author of sixteen cookbooks. He specialized in researching and writing about regional cuisines around the world, including The Indonesian Kitchen, False Tongues and Sunday Bread: A Guatemalan and Mayan Cookbook (1985) and The Great Book of Couscous (1994).
Marks was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1921. He obtained a degree in agriculture from the University of Vermont, before serving in World War II, serving in the Burma Campaign. After the war he served for eight years in the Foreign Service, after which he opened an import-export business.
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Who was Copeland Marks?
American cookbook writer
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Copeland Marks was born in 1921.
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Copeland Marks died in 1999.
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