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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 641.59 EAN: 9780307277442 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0307277445 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: October 14, 2008 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: October 14, 2008 Studio: Anchor Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing-one of the food world's most admired figures-comes this evocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. 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 luminaries of the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich. Here also are fifty of Jones's favorite recipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with its own story and special tips. The Tenth Muse is an absolutely charming memoir by a woman who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a pivotal role in shaping it. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The love of life, good food, and cooking.If you enjoy cooking, if you enjoy browsing through cook books, if the secrets of great meals excite you, and above all if love good food then this is a book for you. It is not only about good food and cooking, it is a memoir of a fascinating woman who lives an interesting life, and has the writing skills to make her account a page turner. For me Julia Child is a hero. When my wife and I talk about cooking, my wife often says, "Yes, I know Julia Child said to do it this way therefore ... Read More Rating: - Part memoir, part travelogue, part cookbook The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food belongs on your shelf with Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun and Bill Buford's Heat. It will awaken your senses and make you long for a crusty bread, an artisan cheese and a fresh peach. Author Judith Jones is a longtime editor at publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and a lifetime epicurean. It would be a mistake to dismiss Jones as "just a cookbook editor," even though her authors include Julia Child, Marion Cunningham, and Lidia Bastianich. She's responsible ... Read More Rating:  - WonderfulJudith Jones has a way of writing that makes it feel as through she's in the room with you, personally telling you the story. This is one of the rare books that I come across and seem incapable of putting down. As a word of warning, you will inevitably be quite envious of her travels and experiences. Furthermore, if you're anything like me, it will make you want to immediately make a trip to France, find an apartment, and live for the day. My! What a dangerous thought! Rating:  - Tasty . . .I received this book as a Christmas present. The author is a young American who falls in love with French cooking while living abroad. She finds a great guy in the last throes of his first marriage, and marries him for life (until he dies some decades later). They relocate from Paris to New England, and she goes on to a life in publishing--the first to discover Julia Child. Her memoir is laden with the great chefs of her time and the sumptuous meals they ate together. She and her husband also entertained ... Read More Rating: - A little chilly at first, but give it time.Initially I found this memoir a disappointment. Ms. Jones has done as much as anyone alive to give us access to new culinary ideas, and it is fair to say that she championed the books that shaped our current gastronomic thinking, as well as editing them. Nonetheless, her account of all this can come across as superficial and chilly; the prose is well crafted, but it sounds as though she's talking about someone else, and not someone that she knows personally or cares about all that much. The book begins to sound ... Read More 
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