Julia Reed, the Southern journalist who died of cancer on Friday at 59, cooked very much the way she lived. Which is to say, she was really into it. Both her appetite and her writing reflected a bawdy sophistication wrapped in a very pretty Southern shawl. Ms. Reed was a daughter of the South and a woman of the world who had made her name as a writer in Washington D.C., New York City and New Orleans, eating both high and low in equal measure. In the best tradition of Southern storytelling, her columns walked the reader along a long and winding path that turned out to be the perfect way to get to her destination.

Source: New York Times August 31, 2020 21:05 UTC