Anna Thomas

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Anna Thomas
Born (1948-07-12) July 12, 1948 (age 75)
Stuttgart, Germany
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • film producer
  • Cookbook author
Notable work The Vegetarian Epicure (1972)

Anna Thomas (born July 12, 1948) is a German-born American author, screenwriter, and film producer. She is best known as the author of the 1972 vegetarian cookbook The Vegetarian Epicure , which contributed to the rise of the vegetarian movement of the 1970s. She is currently discipline head of the Screenwriting department at the American Film Institute. [1]

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Anna Thomas wrote The Vegetarian Epicure (1972) while still a film student at UCLA. It had a strong impact on the natural foods movement within the American counterculture. [2] [3]

She made The Haunting of M , her thesis film for her master's degree, in Scotland. It was well received by film critics as well as shown at film festivals and art houses. [4]

Cookbooks

Vegetarian

Screenwriting filmography

Awards and nominations

Nominated

Won

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References

  1. AFI faculty biographical information page.
  2. Kauffman, Jonathan (2018). Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers, Longhair, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Harper Collins. ISBN   9780062437303.
  3. Belasco, Warren (2007). Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on The Food Industry. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0801473296.
  4. Ebert, Roger Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine . Chicago Sun-Times, film article, December 15, 1983.
  5. James Beard Foundation Nomination
  6. 1 2 IMDB Awards and Nominations
  7. James Beard Foundation Award