Judith Jones Quotes (4 Quotes)

She lives on every time I taste fried chicken or in little memories of how she listened to the sound of a cake baking in the oven. So she's with me all the time. That's a great gift.

Recalling the pleasures of growing and gathering foods and preparing them with care, of relishing the changing seasons ... was her way of preserving an important part of American life and sharing its rewards with others.

We need the voice right there in the kitchen with us, telling us which ingredients to choose, carefully describing a technique, and pointing out the little details that make all the difference.

She wrote in wonderful longhand. We helped shape it a little. She had a natural gift, a sense of recall and immediacy when she wrote about the pleasures of cooking and hunting for wild things.