Judith Jones - Judith Jones was Julia Child's editor at Knopf and author of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.
Molly O'Neill - Molly O'Neill is the food columnist for the New York Times Sunday Magazine and a reporter for the "Style" section of the New York Times.
She grew up in Columbus, Ohio as the oldest child, and only daughter, of five children. For ten years she worked as a chef and studied cooking at La Verenne in Paris.
Twelve years ago she began writing for a living, first as a columnist at Boston Magazine, then at Food and Wine Magazine. In 1984, she became the restaurant critic for New York Newsday and moved to the New York Times in 1989.
She has been nominated for Pulitzer Prize two times. Her first book, The New York Cookbook, won both the Julia Child/IACP and James Beard Awards.
Joan Reardon - Joan Reardon is the author of M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table.
Laura Shapiro - Laura Shapiro is the author of the biography of Julia Child.
Andrew F. Smith - Andrew Smith is a writer and lecturer on food and culinary history. He serves as the general editor for the University of Illinois Press Food Series, and is past Chair of The Culinary Trust, the philanthropic partner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).
He also teaches Culinary History at the New School in Manhattan.
Julia Child didn't start cooking until she was 39, but no other chef influenced late-20th-century American cooking more than she did.
45 years after the debut of her groundbreaking PBS show, "The French Chef," this panel will discuss the profound effects of her books, television shows, and entertaining and accessible persona on our cuisine and culture.
Panelists include Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor at Knopf and author of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food; Molly O'Neill, former New York Times Magazine food columnist and author of The New York Cookbook; Joan Reardon, author of M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table; and Laura Shapiro, author of the Penguin Lives book, Julia Child.
Moderated by Andrew F. Smith, editor of the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink.
This program was a great insight into the life of someone with whom I made acquaintance through the medium of television. To know the struggle and trials that Mrs. Child endured to publish and maintain her books, gives me hope that cuisine will not die even in this time of hyper=inflation and shortages of staple foods.
Thank you so much for your presentation of this show.