He Faked a Food Career for Eight Years: The Frank Larsen Fraud
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He Faked a Food Career for Eight Years: The Frank Larsen Fraud
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A laminated press credential was found six inches above the waterline on September 4, 2019, and it belonged to a real Continental Table journalist - but the name it revealed did not match the man posing as a critic in Crestfield for nearly a decade. How did a stolen badge, a homemade press pass and carefully practiced language let one man quietly build a fabricated career in a town hungry for recognition?
In this episode, you will hear how Frank Larsen arrived in Crestfield in autumn 2013 with two suitcases, a laptop and a signed lease, presented himself as a contributing critic for Continental Table and The Meridian Review, and wrote a monthly column for Carron Quarterly - so what finally exposed the fabrication and who noticed the inconsistencies?
Person: Frank Larsen
Date: September 4, 2019
Location: Crestfield, Michigan
Event: Discovery of Continental Table credential
Publication: Carron Quarterly
- Frank arrived in Crestfield in autumn 2013 at age 40 with two suitcases, a laptop, and a signed lease on Coulter Street.
- He handed business cards listing Continental Table and The Meridian Review to local restaurants and introduced himself to chefs at Vessel and Maison Creutz.
- Denise Edwards of Carron Quarterly began running his monthly column in 2015 after receiving his letter about fermentation.
- The press credential was found stuck to the inside face of a concrete pier at the old cannery waterfront, six inches above the waterline.
- Frank had originally found Craig Pullman’s Continental Table badge on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2011 and later produced a homemade replica using a color printer and laminator.
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