Piotr Bikont (12 May 1955 – 27 June 2017) was a Polish journalist, publicist, culinary critic and a theatre director.Iwona Irwin Zarecka, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory Video Shooter: Storytelling with DV, HD and HDV Cameras By Barry Braverman The New Yorker, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1992
Bikont translated Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus to Polish. He was a member of editorial staff of the talking magazine Gadający Pies based in Kraków, and the author of a book Jewish Cooking According to Balbina Przepiórko."Meeting with Piotr Bikont - 'Jewish Cooking According to Balbina Przepiórko' " , Jewish Festival
Bikont was married to journalist Anna Bikont, co-founder and editor of Tygodnik MazowszeShana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism, The University of Michigan Press, 2005 and Gazeta Wyborcza, with whom he had two children: Maniucha Bikont, an anthropologist and artist, and Aleksandra Bikont. He died on 27 June 2017 in a car accident."Piotr Bikont, dziennikarz i krytyk kulinarny, nie żyje", Wyborcza He was 62.
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