When I first interviewed Judith Jones in 1984 for a newspaper story about a book on New England cooking she and her husband, Evan, were working on, she let him do the talking. Fit and petite, Jones ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, Lily Meyer offered readers a beautiful ode to Judith Jones, the legendary ...

Sara B. Franklin is the author of the just-published biography, “The Editor,” which explores the life of publishing legend Judith Jones. A writer, teacher and oral historian with a Ph.D. in food ...

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959, and the young Knopf editor Judith Jones was trying to tie up ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Once upon a time, sometime in the late 1940s, a young American named Judith Bailey decided to take a road trip from Paris to Provence with a group of ...