This Is Mark Bittman’s Very First Column

It ran 40 years ago this week

Credit: ‘The New Haven Advocate’

My very first food column, reproduced below, ran in the New Haven Advocate 40 years ago, on February 27, 1980.

This column is about food and some of the elements involved in eating it — primarily in restaurants but also at home. I’ll be writing about quality, taste, pleasure, misery, money, how to do-it-yourself, and…