Interviews
HOW PUBLISHING LEGEND JUDITH JONES SHAPED CULTURE WITH JOE YONAN
JUNE 13, 2024
Video recording of Sara B. Franklin discussing THE EDITOR, at Politics & Prose on May 30, 2024 with Washington Post Food and Dining Editor, Joe Yonant..…
NEW BOOK DOCUMENTS THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF FOOD EDITOR JUDITH JONES
JUNE 13, 2024
Jones' storied career in publishing began in the 1940s and lasted through the 2010s. She helped shape and grow the cookbook industry into a respected genre, while nurturing a diverse cast of authors who might otherwise have gone unnoticed. She split her time between New York City and Walden, Vermont..…
AN INTIMATE LOOK AT COOKBOOK LEGEND JUDITH JONES, WITH AUTHOR SARA B. FRANKLIN
JUNE 3, 2024
If you know the history of cookbook publishing, you know about Judith Jones. Through her work with Julia Child, Edna Lewis, Madhur Jaffrey, Claudia Roden, and others, Judith helped usher in the modern cookbook era and changed the culinary world in the process.…
TWO BOOK EDITORS THAT CHANGED PUBLISHING
MAY 30, 2024
Today we have a book that helped us to lift the curtain on the inner workings of the book business. The Editor by Sara B. Franklin tells us the story of Judith Jones, the game changing editor who changed the publishing business at a time where women weren't in the publishing business….
THE WOMAN WHO DISCOVERED JULIA CHILD: THE SECRET LIFE OF JUDITH JONES
MAY 16, 2024
Sara Franklin shares the life story of Judith Jones, the legendary editor behind some of the greatest cookbooks of the 20th century. We hear how she discovered Julia Child, why Edna Lewis sent her a box of squirrels and what happened when she was told to reject the diary of Anne Frank….
SUMMER READING WITH AIMEE NEZHUKUMATAHIL AUTHOR OF BITE BY BITE AND SARA B. FRANKLIN AUTHOR OF THE EDITOR
MAY 24, 2024
This week, we’ve got suggestions to start your summer reading list. First, we sit down with bestselling author and poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil to talk about her upbringing and the nature of her poetry. She writes about her parent’s gardens and their food, and how she carries her childhood experiences with her today. Her latest book is Bite By Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees. Then, we learn about the life and legacy of the iconic book editor Judith Jones through her biographer Sara B. Franklin. Sara documented Judith’s amazing journey from her first job at a publishing house to transforming the cookbook industry at large….
COOKING THE BOOKS WITH SARA B. FRANKLIN
MARCH 8, 2024
Welcome to Episode 208, which features a fantastic author spotlight with Sara B. Franklin. Her new biography, THE EDITOR: HOW PUBLISHING LEGEND JUDITH JONES SHAPED CULTURE IN AMERICA, is a must-read. It is not hyperbole to say that everyone reading and eating today has been touched by Judith Jones’s work, and Franklin’s writing is a delight to read….
COOKING THE BOOKS WITH SARA B. FRANKLIN
MARCH 8, 2024
The first time Sara B. Franklin met storied Knopf editor Judith Jones, she was 26 years old and terrified. It was a cold January morning in 2013, and Franklin had arranged a visit with Jones, a personal hero, at her Upper East Side apartment to discuss collaborating on an oral history of her life and work. In her 54 years at Knopf, Jones had edited such authors as Julia Child, Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, helping transform both the literary and culinary landscapes of postwar America in the process…..
REPOSITIONING THE FOOD OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH: SARA B. FRANKLIN ON EDNA LEWIS’S WRITING CAREER
OCTOBER 4, 2018
As we planned our tribute episode to Edna Lewis, we knew we'd want to talk to her family, friends and fellow chefs. We also knew that we should visit with Sara B. Franklin; she is a food writer and educator who edited a wonderful collection of essays about the work, life and food of Miss Edna called Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original. Franklin is also working on a book on Judith Jones, Miss Lewis’s legendary editor. Francis Lam talked with Sara B. Franklin about the lasting effect that Edna Lewis has had on the world of food, particularly how it views Southern cooking and cuisine.…..
KEEP CALM AND COOK ON: TELLING WOMEN’S STORIES WITH SARA B. FRANKLIN
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Writer and teacher Sara B. Franklin joins Julia for a conversation centered on three women: Edna Lewis, Judith Jones, and Sara’s own mother. This episode is all about how critical it is to celebrate the older women in our lives, to name their challenges out loud, and to listen to them when they share their stories….