There's a lovely article about Judith Jones in the Boston Globe

Thanks for that! Interesting comment about the Hazans

I was just rereading a Saveur piece about them, set just before their move to Florida. They had awfully condescending things to say about their cooking-class students, such as something snide about clueless "Texan housewives" sent by their husbands.

 
I've hear snippets

make that "heard snippets" of nasty things about them for years. Little barbs here and there in interviews, etc. Just finished reading Nancy Verde Barr's new book about her association with Julia Child. Julia encouraged her to work on her Italian and pushed her to classes with the Hazans in Italy. NVB says in her book that Julia was anxious to hear how things went because of bad things she'd heard about other's expereinces with and treatment by the Hazans. She said Julia was "relieved" to hear that she had a good experience. In the couple of TV interviews I've seen of Marcella, I didn't care for her imperious attitudes.

Where there's smoke...

 
I saw that attitude way back in the late 70's when I was just out of chef school. But---she was..

an eye opener for me. At first I resented her attitude concerning "Italian American" food, but she was right--it's not really Italian food. I was devistated to learn that the food I grew up on was a bastardized version of the real thing --because of a lack of the proper ingredients and the "hand-me down" status of many dishes.

Now we have learned that those American style preparations are just as legitimate as any from Italy--just different. BUT delicious, and not to be looked down upon.

Marchella made me mad, then opened my eyes to a whole new cuisine. Attitudewise----she reminds me of some of my relatives. "This is the way it's mad--period; your way is the wrong way". The right way to cook Italian well changes from town to town; block to block; household to household. Take it or leave it--but taking it is always delicious.

 
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