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The New York Times

August 22, 2013
Leslie Land, Food Writer and Early Locavore, Dies at 66
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Leslie Land, a food and garden writer who published "The 3,000 Mile Garden," a
collection of her correspondence with the British horticulturalist Roger
Phillips that became a series on public television, died on Aug. 10 in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She was 66.

The cause was complications of breast cancer, her husband, Bill Bakaitis, said.

Ms. Land wrote the syndicated newspaper column "Good Food" for 20 years and
wrote more than 500 articles, including the Garden Q&A column, for The New York
Times from the 1980s until 2008. She also wrote two cookbooks, one of which,
"Reading Between the Recipes," proffered recipes and cooking tips embedded in
charming stories. One described a practical method for poaching a nearly
four-foot salmon in a bathtub.

"Let the fish cool in situ," Ms. Land advised. "There are few things more
awkward to handle than a big, hot, wet fish."......

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Lenona.

Condolences to her family and friends. Prayers said.