Jill Norman is a British editor and food writer. She published authors such as Elizabeth David for

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Education

She studied French and Spanish at King's College in London.

Herbs and Spices

She is acknowledged internationally as an authority on herbs and spices.

Publishing Career

After university, she joined Penguin Books as an editor. One of her responsibilities was to expand the list of food and wine books. In the 60s and 70s, there were few cheap cookery books on the market, and so the list took off with authors who became household names like Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, Claudia Roden and Alan Davidson. There was no test kitchen at Penguin Books so Jill Norman used to test out any recipes in the books she was working on which she thought sounded interesting or 'rather dodgy'. Through the testing she says that her family ate food from all over the world and she became a 'reasonable' cook. By the time she left Penguin, she was responsible not only for food and drink but also social sciences, education and more.

Elizabeth David

Jill's first meeting with Elizabeth David was about a new cover for a book. They saw each other frequently for work and became friends. After Elizabeth David's death in 1992, as the literary executor of Elizabeth David's work, Jill Norman found a box with articles, recipes and notes about Christmas. Elizabeth David had intended to publish them as a book. Jill Norman put the material together as Elizabeth had intended in a book about Christmas that was published in Jill finished editing Elizabeth David's last book, ''Harvest of the Cold Months'', a book about the Social History of Ice and Ices, after David's death. It was made up of two anthologies and unpublished work.

Awards

The Glenfiddich award 1986 for Sainsbury's Classic Cookbooks. The André Simon award, the Glenfiddich award, and the IACP award for a reference book in 1990 for The Complete Book of Spices. In 1994 André Simon Award for Elisabeth David's Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices, which Jill Norman had edited. In 2014 The

Guild of Food Writers The Guild of Food Writers is the professional association of food writers and broadcasters in the United Kingdom. It has around 550 authors, broadcasters, columnists and journalists amongst its members. History On 12 April 1984, a number of lea ...

gave Jill Norman its Lifetime Achievement Award. Winner 2006 James Beard Foundation Award for The Cook's Book (DK Publishing)

References

External links

Guild of Food Writers
official site. * https://jillnorman.com Jill Norman's official website Living people British food writers James Beard Foundation Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) {{food-bio-stub