Judith Jones at Portland Museum of Art
Legendary Food Editor on March 9
By: Ariel Petrova - Feb 08, 2010
The Portland Museum of Art will present legendary editor Judith Jones, who will speak about her life in food, working with Julia Child, and her latest book, The Pleasures of Cooking for One on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn By the Bay.
Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf since 1959, Jones is best known for her editorial work as the champion behind the underappreciated book proposal that became the revolutionary cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Tickets for the lecture are $15 and $10 for Museum members and can be purchased at portlandmuseum.org or by calling (207) 775-6148, ext. 3227. A book signing will follow the lecture at the Portland Museum of Art. This lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art, on view at the Portland Museum of Art February 4 through June 6, 2010.
In addition to her numerous collaborations with Julia Child, Jones worked as editor to a dazzling list of first-rate cookbook writers and chefs, including James Beard, Jacques Pépin, 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.
Jones also collaborated with Angus Cameron on The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook. Her memoir, The 10th Muse: My Life in Food, relates tales of running an illegal restaurant in Paris and learning from Julia Child how to de-tendon a goose (with a broomstick) among other details. In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. Jones was recently featured in O magazineÂ’s October 2009 issue and on CBS Sunday Morning, November 22, 2009.