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Teaching and writing about food gradually supplanted music as Field's main career, and he gave his last concert in 1964. He moved his family to New York, where he held his cooking classes in his apartment. He died there of a heart attack in 1971, at the age of 56, leaving his widow and a 20-year-old
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Field was born in New York City. His mother died when he was three years old, and he was raised by
William Calhoun, a piano teacher, and his wife. Field said that the latter "got him interested in cooking". Field was educated in New York, first at the
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30:(February 21, 1915 – March 22, 1971) was an American food writer and critic. Earlier in his career he had been a concert pianist, but from 1964 until his death he concentrated on his work as an author and teacher of cooking.
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In 1943, Field formed a piano duo with Vera
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In 1949, Field married
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