Name Jean Anderson | Role Cookbook author | |
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Education Cornell University, Columbia University Awards James Beard Award for Cookbook Hall of Fame Nominations James Beard Award for Reference and Scholarship, James Beard Award for Health and Diet Books The Food of Portugal, The new Doubleday cookbook, The American Century, A Love Affair with Southern, The new German cookbook | ||
Jean Anderson (Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American cookbook author.
Anderson has a BS (Food and Nutrition) from Cornell University and a MS (Journalism) degree from Columbia University . Anderson is a member of the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame and a charter member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance. She helped organize the James Beard Journalism Awards 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 magazines, as chief consulting editor for Reader's Digest cookbooks, and as food columnist for New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. An authority on Portugal, its food, wine, and folk art, Anderson has been traveling about that country for 40 years. Her Food of Portugal was named "Best Foreign Cookbook" in the 1986 Tastemaker Awards. Anderson's food, travel, and general features have won various awards, among them, the Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship, the George Hedman Travel Writing Award, and two commendations from the Government of Portugal. Anderson divides her time between New York City and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.