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David Mas Masumoto

With Introduction by Deane Wylie
Sunday, February 2, 1997
00:47:23
Episode Summary

David Mas Masumoto is a third-generation Japanese-American peach and grape farmer. His book Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm is a chronicle of family, farm travails, and his struggle to market an old variety of peach. In addition to being a writer and farmer, Masumoto is a farm activist and a member of the California Council for the Humanities. His book was awarded the Julia Child Cookbook Award for best book in the Literary Food Writing category. He lives in Del Rey, California.

This program as presented as part of the 1997 season of Racing Toward the Millennium: Voices from the American West in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.


Participant(s) Bio

Deane Wylie is assistant Op-Ed editor at the Los Angeles Times and previously worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.



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