About this item
From the esteemed food editor and author Judith Jones a charming practical guide to sharing the pleasures of home cooking with your dog Doesnrsquot manrsquos best friend deserve a little more than cardboard-dry kibble day in and day out Judith Jones thinks so and in this delightful new cookbook she offers up more than fifty home-cooked recipes both time efficient and finance friendlymdashamong them Salmon Cakes Wild Mushroom Risotto and Shepherdrsquos Piemdashthat shersquos loved and shared with her own canines Jones explains the nutritional benefits of substituting or supplementing store-bought food with a diet of fresh home-prepared ingredients She offers helpful extras like advice on portion size what to do with scraps and the latest research on controversial ingredients such as garlic newly vindicated ginger use sparingly and eggplant an acquired taste but scrape out the seeds Though many of the recipes are simple to prepare using basic techniques and ingredients home cooks are likely to have on hand Jones never compromises flavor or variety when a full recipemdashher mouth-watering Moussaka for instancemdashis too complex for a dogrsquos palate or digestive health Jones gives detailed instructions on how to modify your petrsquos share Jones balances her recipes tips and techniques with endearing accounts of life with her own dogs including her very first a Scottish terrier a poodle who charmed a French chef into serving up a haute-cuisine feast gratis and her current Havanese pup Mabon who occasionally contributes his own two cents within these pages She also includes the thoughts of some of her canine- and food-loving friends Jacques Peacutepin and M F K Fisher among them With Love Me Feed Me to guide you planning what to put in your dogrsquos bowl becomes a natural part of deciding what to put on your own table and your dog will savor mealtimes all the more because of it Filled with the practical wisdom and verve of a master home cook and lifetime dog lover Love Me Feed Me can only lead to a happier healthier dog.
About the Author
Judith Jones is Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf. She joined the company in 1957 as an editor working primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. She had worked before that for Doubleday, first in New York and then in Paris, where she was responsible for reading and recommending The Diary of Anne Frank. In addition to her literary authors, she has been particularly interested in developing a list of first-rate cookbook writers; her authors have included Julia Child (Judith published Julia's first book and was her editor ever after), Lidia Bastianich, James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock, Joan Nathan, Jacques Pépin, Claudia Roden, and Nina Simonds. She is the coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of two books: The Book of Bread: Knead It, Punch It, Bake It! (for children); and The Book of New New England Cookery. She also collaborated with Angus Cameron on The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook. Recently, she has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
