Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Jones, Judith |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 10/14/2008 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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
Livingin Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveledin everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published JuliaChild’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomichistory. 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 luminariesof the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to ClaudiaRoden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich.
Also included are fifty of Jones’s favoriterecipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with its own story and specialtips.
“Lovely. . . . A rare glimpse into the roots of the modern culinary world.”—Chicago Tribune
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