Johannes van Dam

{{Short description|Dutch journalist (1946–2013)}}

Johannes van Dam (Amsterdam 9 October 1946 - Amsterdam 18 September 2013) was a Dutch journalist and the country's best-known writer on food.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} Van Dam wrote a regular column on food for the national daily Het Parool for almost 25 years.

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Van Dam studied medicine and psychology and worked in the newspaper business from 1967 to 1981 (for Het Vrije Volk and Haagse Post), before running a cookbook store in Amsterdam, in 1983. In 1986 he started writing a column on food for the Dutch weekly Elsevier, and in 1989 sold the bookstore and began writing full-time, for Het Parool and the Belgian daily De Morgen in addition to Elsevier. He published a book on food, De Dikke Van Dam, in 2005. He died in an Amsterdam hospital in 2013 after suffering for some time from health problems, including diabetes.{{cite news|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3512074/2013/09/18/Culinair-journalist-Johannes-van-Dam-overleden.dhtml|title=Culinair journalist Johannes van Dam overleden|date=18 September 2013|work=de Volkskrant|language=Dutch|accessdate=19 September 2013}} His biography, written by Jeroen Thijssen, was published on November 9, 2018.{{cite book|author=Jeroen Thijssen|date=November 2018|isbn=9789046824504|pages=318 pag|publisher=Nieuw Amsterdam|title=Johannes van Dam - De biografie}}