Jean Anderson (cookbook author)

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|name = Jean Anderson

|birth_name = Helen Jean Anderson

|birth_date = {{birth date|1929|10|12}}

|birth_place = Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2023|1|24|1929|10|12}}

|death_place = Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.

|education = {{ubl|Cornell University (BS)|Columbia University (MS)}}

|occupation = {{hlist|Food writer|editor}}

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Helen Jean Anderson (October 12, 1929 – January 24, 2023) was an American cookbook author and editor.

Life and work

Anderson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.{{cite news|url = https://journalnow.com/entertainment/dining/n-c-food-writer-remembered-for-her-expertise-and-generous-spirit/article_9bb23d60-a7cd-11ed-921f-93da8bbaa41e.html|title = N.C. food writer remembered for her expertise and generous spirit|newspaper = Winston-Salem Journal|date = February 10, 2023|accessdate = February 26, 2023|last = Hastings|first = Michael}} Her father was a botany professor at North Carolina State University at Raleigh at the time of her birth, though he later moved to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Penelope |date=February 10, 2023 |title=Jean Anderson, Author Who Coaxed Shy Cooks Into Kitchen, Dies at 93 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/dining/jean-anderson-dead.html |access-date=February 10, 2023|page = A21|url-access = limited}} Anderson had a BS in food and nutrition from Cornell University and a MS in journalism degree from Columbia University. She began her journalistic career at The Raleigh Times, after receiving her undergraduate degree, and started at Ladies' Home Journal as a graduate student.

Anderson helped organize the James Beard Journalism Awards[http://www.jamesbeard.org/ Welcome to the James Beard Foundation] at www.jamesbeard.org and for two years, co-chaired that committee. Though best known for her articles in Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Gourmet, More, Travel + Leisure and other magazines, Anderson served as assistant food editor, then managing editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal, as contributing editor at Family Circle and Diversion[http://www.diversionmag.com Diversion Magazine - For Physicians at Leisure] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812175825/http://www.diversionmag.com/ |date=August 12, 2007 }} at www.diversionmag.com magazines, as chief consulting editor for Reader's Digest cookbooks, and as food columnist for New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. She was a member of the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame{{Cite web |url=http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search.php |title=The James Beard Foundation Awards: Award Search |access-date=August 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820215849/http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search.php |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |url-status=dead }} and a charter member of Les Dames d’Escoffier{{Cite web |url=http://www.ldei.org/homeFrameset.asp |title=Archived copy |access-date=August 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818065204/http://www.ldei.org/homeFrameset.asp |archive-date=August 18, 2007 |url-status=dead }} and the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance.[http://www.nywca.org/ NYWCA] at www.nywca.org Anderson wrote around 30 books, with the last being published in 2019.

An authority on Portugal, its food, wine, and folk art, Anderson traveled around that country for 40 years. Her Food of Portugal[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780688134150/Food_of_Portugal/index.aspx Food of Portugal by Jean Anderson] at www.harpercollins.com was named "Best Foreign Cookbook" in the 1986 Tastemaker Awards.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/policies.shtml |title=The James Beard Foundation Awards |access-date=August 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820094619/http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/policies.shtml |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |url-status=dead }} Anderson's food, travel, and general features won various awards, among them, the Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship,[http://www.pulitzer.org The Pulitzer Prizes | What's New] at www.pulitzer.org the George Hedman Travel Writing Award, and two commendations from the Portuguese government.

Personal life and death

Anderson moved back to Chapel Hill in 2007, after spending much of her adult life in New York City. She died at her home on January 24, 2023, at the age of 93.

Bibliography

The Art of American Indian Cooking (with Yeffe Kimball). Simon & Schuster: 1965.
The Doubleday Cookbook (with Elaine Hanna). Doubleday: 1975. R.T. French Tastemaker Cookbook-of- the-Year as well as Best Basic Cookbook
Jean Anderson's Processor Cooking. William Morrow and Company, Inc.: 1979
Half a Can of Tomato Paste & Other Culinary Dilemmas (with Ruth Buchan). Harper & Row, 1980. Seagram/International Association of Culinary Professionals Award, Best Specialty Cookbook of the Year.
Jean Anderson Cooks: Her Kitchen Reference & Recipe Collection. William Morrow and Company, Inc.: 1982
Jean Anderson's New Processor Cooking. William Morrow and Company, Inc.: 1983
The New Doubleday Cookbook (with Elaine Hanna). Doubleday: 1985.
The Food of Portugal. William Morrow: 1986. Seagram/International Association of Culinary Professionals Award, Best Foreign Cookbook of the Year
The New German Cookbook (with Hedy Würz). HarperCollins: 1993
The American Century Cookbook. Clarkson Potter: 1997
The Good Morning America Cut the Calories Cookbook (co-edited with Sara Moulton). Hyperion: 2000
Dinners in a Dish or a Dash. William Morrow: 2000
Process This! New Recipes for the New Generation of Food Processors. William Morrow: 2003. James Beard Best Cookbook, Tools & Techniques Category
Quick Loaves. William Morrow: 2005
A Love Affair with Southern Cooking: Recipes and Recollections. Foreword by Sara Moulton. William Morrow: 2007
Falling Off the Bone. John Wiley & Sons: 2010
Kiln to Kitchen: Recipes from Beloved North Carolina Potters. University of North Carolina Press: 2019.