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Michael Ruhlman Interviews Judith Jones

There's a fine Judith Jones interview well worth reading on Michael Ruhlman's blog. Ms. Jones is dismayed by the state of cookbook publishing today. Ruhlman asked her for her list of pros and cons on the subject: I’m afraid I’ll give you mostly cons. I think [publishers] are afraid to touch a book unless the author is someone you can promote. You have to be a celebrity. And I’ve seen many really lovely cookbooks die aborning. So the people who have the television programs are known quantities—I mean this is true of everything in our culture. But it makes it much harder work to put across a lovely book like Katy Sparks’s Sparks in the Kitchen. She’s a chef who...

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6 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, November 4, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Tagged: Judith Jones, Michael Ruhlman

Weekend Book Giveaway: Judith Jones's 'The Tenth Muse'

Here's a partial list of the writers our Weekend Book Giveaway author Judith Jones has edited: Julia ChildEdna LewisJohn UpdikeMarcella HazanJames BeardJoan NathanMarion CunninghamClaudia RodenAnne Tyler So it is an obvious cause for celebration when someone as distinguished as Jones writes her culinary memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food. She's 83 years old and doesn't appear to be slowing down, according to a recent profile in the New York Times: Ms. Jones says she makes dinner for herself almost every night (with candles and wine, yet), sharpens her own knives, tests recipes from current authors like Lidia Bastianich (adapting them, even casseroles, to serve one), and lobs frequent complaints to her local purveyors. Formidable and feisty, don't you...

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66 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, October 27, 2007 at 7:08 AM
Tagged: Judith Jones, weekend book giveaway