Meet Duel Christian

Duel Christian is a Pensacola native, born in the late 1960’s. Growing up he was immersed in Pensacola history. His grandmother, Mary Wesley, was the president of the Pensacola Historic Preservation Society. Duel was “voluntold” to attend all things historical; reenactments, lectures, archeology digs, as well as cleaning, mopping, and dusting the Quina House Museum from time to time.

He spent his adult years in the television industry, nearly three decades. In that time he was involved in numerous cooking shows, beginning as a camera operator, working his way through all positions of audio, graphics, directing, and writing/producing. He was involved in somewhere over 300 episodes in all, from local segments to nationally syndicated shows. He learned how to cook on a TV set.  For nearly twenty of those years Duel wrote/produced/and directed TV commercials, mostly regional however some were seen nationally. Striking out on his own he was a freelance writer for a time, writing for magazines, websites, newspapers, but the bulk of it was content marketing copy for businesses.

Pensacola Flavor A Culinary History With Recipes is his first book which tells the story of Pensacola through the recipes of the people who forged out a living on Florida’s frontier. He is currently working on his next nonfiction food history book as well as developing his first work of fiction.