Avis DeVoto (born May 22, 1904) attended Northwestern University before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she guiding two famous cookbooks to publication.
Avis DeVoto (May 22, 1904  March 7, 1989) was an American culinary editor, book reviewer and cook. 
She attended Northwestern University and at the end of her freshman year in 1923, she married American historian Bernard DeVoto, who had been her English instructor. The DeVotos remained in Evanston for four years and then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Bernard taught English at Harvard University until 1936. 
She was highly influential in editing and guiding two famous cookbooks to publication: Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and the US edition of the British food writer Elizabeth David's Italian Food. 
