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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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Still Life, Evora, Portugal
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Jean
has been a newspaper Woman’s Editor (THE RALEIGH TIMES), a NY 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 six “cookbook Oscars” (Tastemaker, IACP [International Association of Culinary Professionals], and James Beard), including Cookbook of the Year (THE DOUBLEDAY COOKBOOK, 1975), Best Foreign Cookbook (THE FOOD OF PORTUGAL, 1986), as well as a nominee in the 1990, 1991 and 1998 James Beard and Julia Child Cookbook Awards. Two of her latest took top honors in the James Beard Cookbook Awards – PROCESS THIS!, an all-new food processor cookbook (Tools & Techniques Category, 2003) and A LOVE AFFAIR WITH SOUTHERN COOKING (Americana Category, 2008). 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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Sopa de Pedra, Palmela, Portugal
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A busy free-lancer in the fields of food and travel, Jean has written 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. A founding member of both Les Dames d’Escoffier and NY Women’s Culinary Alliance, she is also an active member of IACP, the NY Culinary Historians, NY Travel Writers Association, and Southern Foodways Alliance. For 30 years Jean has mentored Food Network and PBS star Sara Moulton.
Jean’s acclaimed 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 lives in Chapel Hill, NC, but returns to her old Manhattan stomping ground as often as possible. She is presently at work on a big new cookbook.
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