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My Life in France

by Julia Child

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Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.

Indeed, when she first arrived in 1948 with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever. Julia's unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as as a cook and teacher and writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.

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ring_valerie, September 23, 2009 (view all comments by ring_valerie)
I'll admit I was a Julia Child fan before reading her My Life In France but I feel I know just a little bit more about Ms. Child and what it must have been like in an a male dominated industry such as cooking. Julia makes it easy to understand why she didn't get caught up in the politics at the Cordon Bleu cooking school. She identified with her purpose, to bring the ease of cooking into every household that she could. I only wish she was around to hear all of this much deserved praise.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780307475015
Author:
Child, Julia
Publisher:
Anchor Books
With:
Prud'homme, Alex
Author:
Prud'homme, Alex
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Cooking
Publication Date:
June 2009
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
414
Dimensions:
6.88x4.24x1.20 in. .46 lbs.
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