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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
by Judith Jones
from Knopf

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• The love of life, good food, and cooking.
  If you enjoy cooking, if you enjoy browsing through cook books, if the secrets of great meals excite you, and above all if love good food then this is a book for you. It is not only about good food and cooking, it is a memoir of a fascinating woman who lives an interesting life, and has the writing skills to make her account a page turner.
  For me Julia Child is a hero. When my wife and I talk about cooking, my wife often says, "Yes, I know Julia Child said to do it this way therefore that is the way it... more info

• Part memoir, part travelogue, part cookbook
  The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food belongs on your shelf with Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun and Bill Buford's Heat. It will awaken your senses and make you long for a crusty bread, an artisan cheese and a fresh peach.
  Author Judith Jones is a longtime editor at publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and a lifetime epicurean. It would be a mistake to dismiss Jones as "just a cookbook editor," even though her authors include Julia Child, Marion Cunningham, and Lidia Bastianich. She's responsible for... more info

• Wonderful
  Judith Jones has a way of writing that makes it feel as through she's in the room with you, personally telling you the story. This is one of the rare books that I come across and seem incapable of putting down. As a word of warning, you will inevitably be quite envious of her travels and experiences. Furthermore, if you're anything like me, it will make you want to immediately make a trip to France, find an apartment, and live for the day. My! What a dangerous thought!

• Tasty . . .
  I received this book as a Christmas present. The author is a young American who falls in love with French cooking while living abroad. She finds a great guy in the last throes of his first marriage, and marries him for life (until he dies some decades later). They relocate from Paris to New England, and she goes on to a life in publishing--the first to discover Julia Child. Her memoir is laden with the great chefs of her time and the sumptuous meals they ate together. She and her husband also entertained... more info

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