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Knopf Cooks

Knopf Cooks

In 1961, Judith Jones published Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and went on to build Knopf’s legendary culinary program featuring authors such as Lidia Bastianich, Edna Lewis, Madhur Jaffrey, Joan Nathan, and Marcella Hazan. Among the bestselling and prize-winning authors published by Knopf Cooks are: Sohla El-Waylly, Deb Perelman, Kwame Onwuachi, Nancy Silverton, Melissa Weller, Nasim Alikhani, Ruby Tandoh, and Anita Lo. 

Meet the Team

Lexy Bloom

Editorial Director
Lexy Bloom oversees Knopf Cooks, our culinary program, for which she acquires and edit cookbooks and food writing, as well as manages the cookbook backlist, home to authors such as Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, and Edna Lewis. Knopf Cooks publishes voice-driven, upmarket yet accessible cookbooks that lend a distinct perspective to a cuisine or culture, from Sohla el-Waylly to Deb Perelman, from Hetty McKinnon to Kwame Onwuachi, from restaurants like Via Carota to Sofreh. Additionally, she works with authors of literary fiction and nonfiction such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk. 

Tom Pold

Senior Editor
Tom Pold is a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, where he acquires and edits cookbook and food narratives for Knopf Cooks, as well as handles backlist titles for Knopf Cooks Classics, like Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, Edna Lewis and Madhur Jaffrey.  In addition to the authors below, other authors he has worked with include Nancy Silverton; Lidia Bastianich;  and Jody Williams and Rita Sodi of Via Carota. 

Tom’s Featured Titles

Morgan Hamilton is an assistant editor at Alfred A. Knopf. In her time at Knopf, Morgan has worked closely with authors such as Nancy Silverton, Lidia Bastianich, Deb Perelman, Joan Nathan, Melissa Weller, Alex Prud’homme, and Hetty Lui McKinnon.  

Sara Eagle is the associate director of marketing at Knopf Cooks. She began her career in publicity at Alfred A. Knopf where she worked with authors such as Deb Perelman, Lidia Bastianich, and Joan Nathan. Recently, Sara has run major marketing campaigns for cookbooks by Sohla El-Waylly, Nancy Silverton, Julia Child, Kwame Onwuachi, Hetty Lui McKinnon, and others. 

Sarah New is the associate director of publicity at Knopf Cooks, where she has had the privilege of working with many esteemed cookbook authors, including Lidia Bastianich, Sohla El-Waylly, Madhur Jaffrey, Hetty Lui McKinnon, Joan Nathan, Deb Perelman, Kwame Onwuachi, and Nancy Silverton. Prior to joining Knopf in 2019, Sarah was a publicist at Bloomsbury USA. 

Amy Hagedorn is a publicist at Knopf Cooks. She has worked with authors including Ruby Tandoh, Rick Easton & Melissa McCart, Sandra Gutierrez, Nini Nguyen, and Sonoko Sakai. She loves roasting chickens in her tiny kitchen in Bushwick, Brooklyn.  

Elka Roderick is an associate publicist at Alfred A. Knopf. Elka joined the company in 2022 and has assisted on the publicity campaigns for authors such as Deb Perelman, Hetty Lui McKinnon, Sohla El-Waylly, Alex Prud’homme, and Noah Galuten. 

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