The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Jones, Judith

The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food

A memoir by the legendary cookbook editor who was present at the creation of the American food...
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Author: Judith Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Jones, Judith

The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food

$66.99 $34.74

The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food

$66.99 $34.74
Author: Judith Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A memoir by the legendary cookbook editor who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a pivotal role in shaping it - "Engrossing. . . . The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the table where American gastronomic history took place."--O, The Oprah Magazine

Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. A new world now opened up to Jones as she discovered, with her husband Evan, the delights of American food, publishing some of the premier culinary luminaries of the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich.

Also included are fifty of Jones's favorite recipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with its own story and special tips.

"Lovely. . . . A rare glimpse into the roots of the modern culinary world."--Chicago Tribune

Author: Judith Jones
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/14/2008
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780307277442
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 20

About the Author
Judith Jones is Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf. She joined the company in 1957 as an editor working primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. She had worked before that for Doubleday, first in New York and then in Paris, where she was responsible for reading and recommending The Diary of Anne Frank. In addition to her literary authors, she has been particularly interested in developing a list of first-rate cookbook writers; her authors have included Julia Child (Judith published Julia's first book and was her editor ever after), Lidia Bastianich, James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock, Joan Nathan, Jacques Pépin, Claudia Roden, and Nina Simonds. She is the coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of two books: The Book of Bread: Knead It, Punch It, Bake It! (for children); and The Book of New New England Cookery. She also collaborated with Angus Cameron on The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook. Recently, she has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

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