AWC Des Moines

Webcast: Cookbook Editor Judith Jones

Celebrated food writer and cookbook editor Judith Jones recently spoke at the Library of Congress. In this webcast she discusses America's love-hat relationship with food, learning at the hands of Julia Childs, and her experiences as a writer and editor.

Jones is described as "the first to espouse the kind of cookbook in which the author encourages and enables the ordinary home cook to create the extraordinary by defining culinary terms, demonstrating techniques, whether it be boning or braising, and by providing explicit directions and detailed explanations. Jones also asked cookbook authors to provide clues to the texture, feel, smell and appearance of the dish as the recipe progresses."

Speaker Biography: Judith Jones, vice president and senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, is the winner of the coveted James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award and editor of culinary luminaries such as Julia Child, James Beard, Madhur Jaffrey, Marcella Hazan, Edna Lewis and Joan Nathan.   

RUNNING TIME: 54 minutes

Announcing the Des Moines Alliance Blog

Web co-chairs Brenda Friedrich and Sandy Renshaw are in the final stages of rolling out The Association for Women in Communications (AWC) Des Moines Alliance blog.

This is your site, a place where members/communicators can share news and information.

We are currently soliciting you to contribute content for the site. This is a chance to share your areas of expertise and your thoughts with your fellow communicators.

If you are interested in contributing on an ongoing basis, contact us at awcweb@mchsi.com.

We encourage everyone's feedback in establishing topic categories.