Julie Gibbs

If you are the owner of a well-worn, sauce-splattered copy of Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion, you have Julie Gibbs to thank for it. Not that she will take credit.

“That’s the most flattering thing ever as a publisher or an author, if you see a well-worn copy of a book you have produced. It’s the best feeling.”

Gibbs was 31 when she published Alexander’s culinary