Lectures & Talks
2010 Bernard A. Osher Lecture: Judith Jones

Date: Tuesday, March 9
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Price: $15.00
Members’ Price: $10.00
Location: Holiday Inn By the Bay

Tickets available by phone at (207) 775-6148, ext. 3227 or at the door. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Join us for an evening with legendary editor, Judith Jones. 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. In addition to her numerous collaborations with Julia Child, she worked as editor to a dazzling list of first-rate cookbook writers and chefs, including Julia Child, 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. She 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 magazine’s October 2009 issue and on CBS Sunday Morning—11/22/09. A reception and book signing in the Museum’s Great Hall will follow the lecture.

This program is made possible by The Bernard A. Osher Lecture Fund at the Portland Museum of Art.