The Tenth Muse

“Lovely, elegant, and passionate.”

—Newsday

“Engaging… . [Jones’s] refined gourmandise is present on every page.”

—The Washington Post

“Lovely… . A rare glimpse into the roots of the modern culinary world.”

—Chicago Tribune

“Engrossing. … The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the table where American gastronomic history took place.”

—O, The Oprah Magazine

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 Pepin, 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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