About Jean
A native of Raleigh, NC, Jean
Anderson earned a BS (with distinction) in Food & Nutrition
from Cornell University and an MS in Journalism from Columbia
University. Here she won the prestigious PULITZER TRAVELING
SCHOLARSHIP, which gave her a year abroad. Headquartering
in Paris, she roamed Western Europe and filed stories back
home along with her own photos to illustrate them.
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Organic heirloom tomatoes
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Jean
has been a newspaper Woman’s Editor (THE RALEIGH TIMES), a magazine editor (from Assistant Food Editor
to Copy Director to Managing Editor of THE LADIES’ HOME
JOURNAL; a Senior Editor at VENTURE, THE TRAVELER’S
WORLD (a glossy high-end travel magazine published
by LOOK MAGAZINE), and a Contributing Editor
at FAMILY CIRCLE and DIVERSION. For
15 years, she also served as Chief Cookbook Consultant
to Reader’s Digest Books and helped create five best-sellers.
Jean is the author of more than 20 cookbooks including
the best-selling DOUBLEDAY COOKBOOK (with Elaine
Hanna),
JEAN ANDERSON COOKS (which TIME MAGAZINE named
one of the outstanding cookbooks of 1982) and THE FOOD
OF PORTUGAL. She is the winner of five Tastemaker
Awards, including Cookbook of the Year (THE DOUBLEDAY
COOKBOOK,
1975), Best Foreign Cookbook (THE FOOD OF PORTUGAL,
1986), a nominee in the 1990, 1991 and 1998 James Beard
and Julia Child Cookbook Awards. One of her latest – PROCESS
THIS!, an
all-new food processor cookbook – won the 2003 James
Beard Award for Best Cookbook in the Tools & Techniques
Category. In 1992, Jean was named “Editor of
the Year” by the James Beard Foundation, in
1994 she was inducted into the James Beard Who’s
Who in Food & Beverage in America, and in 1999
into the JAMES BEARD COOKBOOK HALL OF FAME.
Twice
honored by the Portuguese government for her articles about
Portugal, Jean also won THE GEORGE HEDMAN MEMORIAL
TRAVEL WRITING AWARD. She appears in WHO’S
WHO IN AMERICA (44th and 45th editions).
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Lisbon's Mercado da Ribeira
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A busy free-lancer in the fields of food and travel,
Jean writes for BON APPÉTIT, COTTAGE LIVING,
FAMILY CIRCLE, FOOD & WINE, GOURMET, MORE, and
other national magazines. She has written weekly food columns
for THE LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE, biweekly
food columns for NEW YORK NEWSDAY, and contributes
occasional food articles to THE NEW YORK TIMES. She
is a founding member of both Les Dames d’Escoffier and
the NY Women’s Culinary Alliance, and is also an
active member of the NY Culinary Historians, the NY Travel
Writers Association, and Southern Foodways. For 25 years
Jean has mentored Food Network star Sara Moulton.
Jean’s AMERICAN CENTURY COOKBOOK, a culinary
nostalgia trip through the 20th century that includes more
than 500 of its most popular recipes, was a finalist in
both the James Beard and Julia Child Cookbook Awards of
1998.
After many years in New York City, Jean now divides her
time between North Carolina and New York. She is presently
at work on a big new cookbook.
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