Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Foodies

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In recognition of our current WikiTree Challenge guest star, DNA Chef, Meli Alexander, we're looking at food influencers -- "foodies" -- in the Connection Finder next week.

Here are some of the foodies we're considering:

  • Selena Gomez, Selena + Chef and Selena + Restaurant, unconnected
  • Ree Drummond, "The Pioneer Woman"
  • Matty Matheson, chef and Neil Fak on The Bear, unconnected but his grandparents of French Canadian origin are now on his tree, so he could be connected by someone with knowledge there.

Who else should we feature? We have room for 12 individuals. We can't feature everyone who is nominated, but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

Our choice of features will depend partly on the notable person's CC7, i.e. their connection count within seven degrees. The more connections they have, the more likely it is for all WikiTree members to find a close and interesting connection to them. So, if you nominate someone, please help grow their CC7.

Suggestions are more likely to be considered if you provide a link to the person on WikiTree, some information about who they were or why you're nominating them, and if their profile is in good condition with a connection, image, and well-written and well-sourced biography.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

Take note that this is not the place to discuss why you think we shouldn't feature someone if those reasons are due to politics, actions, or opinions of those being suggested. Mentioning things like their not being connected, their biography still needing work, erroneous information, etc. are all suitable for discussion here and an opportunity to correct those situations.

Help us choose themes for 2024 Connection Finder themes here. 

in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (747k points)
edited by Abby Glann
If you could get Matty hooked up to his paternal grandfather (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Matheson-3349) and great-grandparents (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Matheson-721 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Anderson-21759), he'll be connected to the tree.

Edited to add: His paternal grandmother is connected to the tree as well: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tucker-24919
Awesome; thanks, Erin! I've connected them.

25 Answers

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We could feature André Michelin, who first published the Michelin Guide in 1900 as a means of increasing automotive tourism (and thus boosting sales at his tire company).  He is connected (closely to this week's feature of Pierre Henri Puiseux), and has bio and photo.

by Greg Lavoie G2G6 Pilot (374k points)
Indeed. A son of André Michelin married a daughter of Pierre Puiseux. And a daughter of Edouard Michelin, brother of André and co-founder of the Michelin industrial empire, married a son of Pierre Puiseux.
Thanks, Greg!
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So I don't lose track, Molly Yeh is now connected, too. (My Name Is Yeh food blog and Food Network show Girl Meets Farm)

by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (747k points)
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Julie Powell, who popularized food blogging and whose book, Julie & Julia, was turned into a Nora Ephron movie (CC7 374)

Emily Meggett, cookbook author and matriarch of Gullah Geechee cuisine (unconnected)

Danny Trejo, Mexican American actor, restaurateur, and author of Trejo's Tacos and Trejo's Cantina. (CC7 215)

Edit: How could I forget British Chinese artist/restaurateur Michael Chow?! (CC7 21)

by Melissa Arjona G2G6 Mach 5 (58.1k points)
edited by Melissa Arjona
Thanks, Melissa.
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Richard Lewis Deacon (Deacon-1267) was not only an actor, but a gourmet cook and he wrote several cookbooks.
by Deena Cross G2G6 Mach 5 (50.9k points)
Thanks, Deena.
+4 votes

Fannie Merritt Farmer [Farmer-1547]; WikiData: Q547167

James Andrews Beard [Beard-5148]; WikiData:Q1399476

by Cathy Brandstetter G2G6 Mach 1 (11.1k points)
edited by Cathy Brandstetter
I still use the "Fannie Farmer" cookbook!! <3

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