Stephanie's review
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones
Stephanie's review
I knew Judith from when I worked at Knopf and she has been the editor for many of the best cookbooks ever: Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, Claudia Roden, Lidia Bastianich among them. She has had a perfectly enviable life and writes about it with economy and relish. What timing she has had, not just being on the forefront of every new food development, but also being poor in French when impoverishment meant a simple slice of pate de maison for lunch and dinner out at a darling bisto with wine, and sharing a pad in the posh 16th with your beau. She has sharp things to say about the current food scene, and how trendy preparations are taking cooking farther away from the home cook: she likes to use all the parts of the animal and be resourceful with leftovers. If you're interested in what JJ is into now, since she rode all the big culinary waves: it's making sorrel soup and gooseberry fool with produce collected on her land in New England. Micro-local! In the section of her own recipes, there...more
