Interviews
COOKING THE BOOKS WITH SARA B. FRANKLIN
MARCH 8, 2024
The first time Sara B. Franklin met storied Knopf editor Judith Jones, she was 26 years old and terrified. It was a cold January morning in 2013, and Franklin had arranged a visit with Jones, a personal hero, at her Upper East Side apartment to discuss collaborating on an oral history of her life and work. In her 54 years at Knopf, Jones had edited such authors as Julia Child, Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, helping transform both the literary and culinary landscapes of postwar America in the process…..
REPOSITIONING THE FOOD OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH: SARA B. FRANKLIN ON EDNA LEWIS’S WRITING CAREER
OCTOBER 4, 2018
As we planned our tribute episode to Edna Lewis, we knew we'd want to talk to her family, friends and fellow chefs. We also knew that we should visit with Sara B. Franklin; she is a food writer and educator who edited a wonderful collection of essays about the work, life and food of Miss Edna called Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original. Franklin is also working on a book on Judith Jones, Miss Lewis’s legendary editor. Francis Lam talked with Sara B. Franklin about the lasting effect that Edna Lewis has had on the world of food, particularly how it views Southern cooking and cuisine.…..
KEEP CALM AND COOK ON: TELLING WOMEN’S STORIES WITH SARA B. FRANKLIN
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Writer and teacher Sara B. Franklin joins Julia for a conversation centered on three women: Edna Lewis, Judith Jones, and Sara’s own mother. This episode is all about how critical it is to celebrate the older women in our lives, to name their challenges out loud, and to listen to them when they share their stories….