Anna Thomas

Screenwriter, filmmaker and author

Because you have to have James Beard in the cookbook shelf – for those times when something comes up in the kitchen, and I think, "Let’s see what James Beard has to say about this." But also for those times when I want to feel like I’m in New York, in a great townhouse, having a martini with interesting people, and about to eat.... then I just open one of the Beard books and read.