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 ...
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 ...
It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959 when William Koshland, an executive at the publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, handed a thick, unwieldy stack of paper to Judith Jones. It was a cookbook, he ...
NEW YORK -- Judith Jones, a consummate literary editor who helped revolutionize American cuisine by publishing Julia Child and other groundbreaking cookbook authors, worked for decades with John ...
To properly honor the legacy of Judith Jones – not only one of the most prominent women in American publishing history, but also one of the metaphorical head chefs of culinary literature – nothing ...
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 ...