Knopf, handed a thick, unwieldy stack of paper to Judith Jones. It was a cookbook, he said. Koshland, who hadn’t a clue about cookbooks, asked Judith if she’d weigh in. “Everybody knew that ...

In doing so, especially at a house with as much literary prestige as Knopf, Judith imbued the daily—and largely unpaid and invisible—work of getting food on the table with value in our culture.

The finale episode, titled “Chocolate Soufflé,” revealed the powerful co-founder and leader of publishing house Knopf is going blind, and only her mentee Judith Jones (Fiona Glascott), who ...

Judith Jones, the legendary Knopf editor who died in 2017, is considered by many to be one of the forebears of modern American food culture. After publishing Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art ...

It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959, and the young Knopf editor Judith Jones was trying to tie up loose ends before making the long drive north to Vermont, where her family would convene.