And, from 2011:
https://sandychatter.wordpress.com/2...okbook-author/
Excerpts:
"Jean Anderson is a cookbook author whose work I have long admired, but with the publishing of 'AMERICAN CENTURY COOKBOOK' her status, in my eyes, increased enormously...
"...Like so many other culinary artists, Jean Anderson is a southerner, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, who was born Helen Jean Anderson. For many years she lived in New York City, but a few years ago in the late 1990s, Jean returned to the south, to Chapel Hill, where she lives today. For many years, Jean lived in Manhattan; she worked as an editor of Family Circle and Ladies Home Journal. She was also a senior editor at Venture magazine. She traveled the world on assignments for magazines such as Gourmet, Saveur, and Travel and Leisure. Jean traveled extensively as a free-lance writer-photographer in Europe, parts of Russia, India, the Middle East, and Latin and South America (Her travel itinerary reminds me a bit of a couple of other favorite cookbook authors, Myra Waldo and Betty Wason).
"Jean is a graduate of Cornell University, where she majored in food and nutrition and has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her early career included working as women's editor for the North Carolina Agriculture Extension Service...
"...Jean Anderson has received many awards in the course of her career, including being named "Editor of the Year" in 1992 by the James Beard Foundation; she was inducted into the James Beard Who's Who in Food & Beverages in America in 1994, and into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame in 1999. She was a winner of the R.T. French Tastemaker Award, for Best Basic Cookbook of the Year, in 1975, and then for Best Specialty Cookbook of the Year, in 1980. Jean was a winner of the Seagram/International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Best Foreign Cookbook of the Year in 1986 (possibly The Food of Portugal, which was published in 1986), and was a finalist for the James Beard Cookbook Awards and Julia Child Cookbook Awards in 1998..
"One can't help but wonder--how does a girl from North Carolina, who spent most of her adult life in New York, happen to write a book about Portugal? Jean explains, in the introduction to "THE FOOD OF PORTUGAL" that she never expected to find such bounty or culinary virtuosity when she first visited Portugal 25 years before writing her one and only foreign cookbook. As a matter of fact, 'THE FOOD OF PORTUGAL' was the only major cookbook in English ever published on the food of Portugal at the time it was published, in 1986. When people heard that she was writing a Portuguese cookbook, they invariably asked, 'But isn't it just like Spanish cooking?' to which Jean demonstrates, no, it isn't..."
https://www.google.com/search?biw=12...4dUDCAo&uact=5
(a few Kirkus reviews)
Lenona.