Judith Huxley
Judith Huxley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Judith Wallet 1926 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | October 17, 1983 (aged 56) |
| Education | |
| Spouse(s) | Roger Bordage (div.) Matthew Huxley (c. 1963) |
| Writing career | |
| Genres | Food and gardening Politics |
| Notable work | Table for Eight in The Washington Post |
Judith Huxley (1926, Boston – October 17, 1983, Chevy Chase) was an American journalist and food columnist, best known for her biweekly column Table for Eight in The Washington Post.[1]
Biography
Huxley, born Judith Wallet, was born and raised in Boston.[1][2] She had a brother, George, and studied at Boston College and Hunter College. She started her journalism career at Associated Press in Boston,[2] later working for the Boston Globe, the Rockefeller Foundation, J. Walter Thompson, Food & Wine, The Washingtonian, and Smithsonian on economics, books, mental health, politics, food, and gardening.[1][2] She lived in New York City, where she was a publicity writer for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Appeal.[1] Her column Table for Eight ran every other Sunday for two years in the Washington Post and was collected into book form and published posthumously by William Morrow and Company.[2][1]
In the 1940s, she was national fund chairman and later president of the Junior Mizrachi Women's Organization of America's Hanitah chapter in Brooklyn.[3][4] During her life, she was also a member of the ACLU, the Cosmopolitan Club, and the Woman's National Democratic Club, as well as chairwoman of the Alliance Française de Washington's cooking program.[2]
Huxley traveled widely for work with her first husband, Roger Bordage, including to Paris, India, and Bolivia, the last of which was for a United Nations mission. They later divorced.[2] She then married Matthew Huxley[5] and moved with him in 1963 to Washington, D.C.[1][2] Journalist William Rice wrote in the introduction of the Table for Eight book that the Huxleys "conducted what, in another time, would have been called a salon."[2][5] After 13 years of battling cancer, she died at her Chevy Chase home on October 17, 1983.[1]
Books
- Huxley, Judith (1984). Judith Huxley's Table for Eight: Recipes and menus for entertaining with the seasons. William Morrow and Company. ISBN 978-0688026394.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Judith Huxley". The New York Times. October 20, 1983. p. 27. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 McPherson, William (October 19, 1983). "Judith Huxley, 56, 'Table for Eight' Columnist, Dies". Washington Post. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
- ↑ "Junior Mizrachi unite elect new officers". The Brooklyn Citizen. Brooklyn, New York, US. July 10, 1942. p. 10. Retrieved May 2, 2025 – via nwespapers.com.
- ↑ "Jr. Mizrachi Card Party Nov. 25". The Herald-News. Passaic, New Jersey, US. November 13, 1941. p. 25. Retrieved May 2, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Author, NIMH Epidemiologist Matthew Huxley Dies at 84". The Washington Post. February 17, 2005. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
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