Alexander Lawton Mackall
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Alexander Lawton Mackall (May 23, 1888 – March 26, 1968) was an author, journalist and
gastronomy Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between Human food, food and culture, the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating. One who is well ver ...
expert and critic. He was the editor of several
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magazines and the author of the renowned restaurant guide ''Knife and Fork in New York'' (1948), a precursor of the Zagat's Survey. He had a strong connection to the Portuguese culture, being made an official of the Ordem de Cristo, a Portuguese honorific order that distinguishes personalities in the field of culture. Through ''The Lawton Mackall Foundation'', incorporated in New York, he instituted a monetary prize to be awarded to the best students of a selected set of high schools in
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
. Mackall was the brother of historian
Leonard Mackall Leonard Leopold Mackall (January 29, 1879 – May 19, 1937) was an American historian. He was an eminent biographer. Early life Mackall was born in 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Leonard Covington Mackall and Louisa Frederika Lawton. His fat ...
and painter Corinne Melchers.


Main works

*''A Perfect Fool'', ''Everybody's Magazine'', August 1925 *''Bizarre'' (illustrated by Lauren Stout), Lieber & Lewis, New York, 1922. *''Black Jitney'', ''The Century'', March 1916 *''Broadway's Poet Laureate'', ''Everybody's Magazine'', Janeiro 1926 *''Clair de Loony'', ''Zest'', Janeiro 1927 *''Hum and Grow Rich'', ''Colliers'', June 20, 1925 *''Knife and Fork in New York'', Doubleday, New York, 1949; *''Light Breakfast'', ''The Century'', April 1916 *''Poodle Oodle of Doodle Farm'' (with Ruth Mackall); *''Portugal for Two'', 1931; *''Scrambled Eggs'', Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, 1920; *''Scrambled Eggs'', ''The Smart Set'', June 1915 *''The Creeping Fingers'', ''The Century'', October 1915 *''The Man with the Hose'', ''The Century'', September 1915 *''The Night of the Fleece'', ''The Century'', August 1915 *''The Restaurateur's Handbook'' (with Charles A. Faissole), 1938.


References

*Louis C. Mackall, ''A Short History the Mackall Family'', New York, 1946.


External links


The Mackall Family of Calvert County, MarylandLawton Mackall scholastic prize
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mackall, Alexander Lawton American male journalists American magazine editors 1968 deaths 1888 births