We love food. Not just because it's a necessary substance for sustaining life. Perhaps, we should say we're in love with food. That's why we would risk personal relationships for an ourstanding meal, why The Food Network is one of the only TV stations we can find without using the guide, and why we comb the pages of picture-heavy cookbooks the way most people thumb through the latest edition of Playboy (NSFW).

And so it stands to reason that Thursday's event at the Central Library branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia would interest us. Judith Jones, a senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf who edited, among other things, Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, will be joined by Alex Prud'homme, the great-nephew of the aforementioned gentle-voiced French chef extraordinaire.

Both Jones and Prud'homme will be promoting their new books: Jones's The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food is an account of her food-related adventures at home and abroad, as well as her relationship with the well-known chefs she published, and Prud'homme's My Life in France, written with his great aunt before her death, is a memoir of her French culinary education at Le Cordon Bleu and her early career, as well as a documentation of the publication of her famous cookbook (recently made famous yet again due to the success of Julie & Julia). It should be an interesting night full of well-written, mouth-watering tales of French cuisine, which, for us, is like going to a public reading of Penthouse Letters (NSFW), although possibly even more sexy.

Pardon us while we drool.

Judith Jones and Alex Prud'homme
Thursday, March 6, 8PM
Central Library (19th and Vine Streets)
Tickets: $14 General Admission, $7 Students

Photograph of Julia Child's kitchen via Flickr user mcelichowski.