Samuel Chamberlain

Samuel Chamberlain was an impressively prolific writer and graphic artist, with some dozens of titles to his name. AtGourmet magazine, he wrote the Clementine column under the namePhineas Beck, anom de plume he based on a Frenh term for a gourmand,bec fin.Chamberlain attended the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lived for many years in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he did indeed introduce Clementine of the famous column to the not-so-glorious challenges of American canned goods and supermarket produce.