Judith Jones

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2007

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week we're going inside the process of how exceptional cookbooks are brought to life. Our guide is Judith Jones, often called the cookbook editor's editor. Forty-some years ago she discovered Julia Child. In the ensuing decades Judith's influence changed the American cookbook forever and her authors became a "who's who of food."

It's camp for the Sterns—roadfood style—at Mike Linnig's Fish Camp in Louisville, Kentucky. Our master of the wine bargain, Joshua Wesson, talks second labels, the hidden deals from world-class vineyards. We'll take a look at the delicious and the deadly when we go to the Fungus Festival in Santa Cruz, California.

New York Times writer Kim Severson brings us chocolate with a passport; and Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, talks the bivalve mollusk's golden age in New York City.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

April 8, 2006 (originally aired)
March 31, 2007 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:31.1	It's Lindrosito-Kasper with the splendid table.
0:45.0	Today it's the cookbook editor's editor.
0:50.0	Judith Jones discovered Julia Childson 40 years ago, and in the process, she changed the American cookbook.
0:51.6	Her authors became a who's who of food.
0:55.6	Now, cooks may write books,
1:01.9	but editors make them fly, and Judith takes us inside the process. It's camp for the Stearns,
1:07.3	road food style, Mike Lennox fish camp right on the Ohio River, Wine Maverick Josh Wesson Talks, hidden bargains, great vineyards second labels. Then it's the dessert mushroom and mushroom milk at the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair.
1:15.2	We have chocolate with a passport from New York Times writer Kim Severson,
1:18.9	and Mark Kulanski talks the oyster's golden age in New York City.
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