A curse placed on one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestors inspired which 1851 novel?

A culinary foundation is named for which "dean of American cookery", born in Portland, Oregon, on May 5, 1903? In Spanish, what is a panadero's profession? Elberta, a freestone variety that originated in Georgia around 1870, is a cultivar of which fruit? A cummerbund is worn around which part of the body? Which word means both a cushion and a groovy bachelor apartment? Which word means both a cutting criticism and a violent closing of a door? Which word means both a cutting remark and part of a feather? Which author wrote "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"?