“We picked the 25 most important recipes of the past century. Then I spent one month cooking every single one. I was not prepared.”
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The Editor Who Brought Julia Child to America
Judith Jones, the legendary Knopf editor, has died at the age of 93.
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Judith Jones, In Her Own Words
The prolific editor, who was an early champion of Anne Frank’s diary, Julia Child’s cookbooks, and many other notable works of the past half-century, passed away today.
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The Scientific Language of Cooking
Have dinner with Harold McGee, the academic-turned-cookbook author who paved the way for Alton Brown and a whole generation of culinary scientists.
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Mid-Century Visions of Modern Food
One of the most dizzying of these effects is the dominance of circles. Ringed or round connoted nature tamed. The vegetables that survived the cleansing were united by two qualities. They were round and cute: button mushrooms, olives, cherry tomatoes, pearl onions, peas, invincible iceberg. (Celery, long and tubular, made it through, too, I think […]