Hey, Mil Street listeners, we're taking our show on the road. Please join us for a special live taping of Milk Street Radio at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wisconsin.

We'll be at the landmark Orphium Theater on Saturday, September 27th. I'll be hosting cheese trivia, taking your cooking questions with chef Tori Miller, handing out samples of some of the best cheese in the state,

and my favorite part, even get my fortune read with a block of cheese.

You will not want to miss that.

Tickets are on sale now at artofcheasefestival.com one more time,

art of cheesefestival.com, and we'll see you there.

This is Mel Street Radio from PRX.

I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

Judith Jones had an illustrious literary career, editing some of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

She was also famous for taking risks.

She was assigned to write rejection letters,

and she took it upon herself to rescue manuscripts out of the slush pile, one of them being the diary of Anne Frank. Judith also championed another book on the break of rejection,

mastering the art of French cooking. When she wanted to publish that book, there was no space for cookbooks in literary publishing.

And she really understood that she could do something very different and very artful.

Later on in the show, how Judith Jones transformed cookbook publishing and made Julia Child a household name.

But first we're diving into a particularly infamous event in Boston's history. Joining me now is Stephen Puleo. He's the author of the book

Dark Tide, the great Boston molasses flood of 1919. Stephen, welcome to Milk Street.

Thank you, Chris.

Thrill to be here.

If you live in Boston, as I do, you've heard of the great molasses flood.

But for the rest of the world, what happened on January 15th, 1919?

So on that day, right around no time, just afternoon time, a huge

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