Name: My Life in France
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Author: Child, Julia ; Prud'homme, Alex
ISBN: 9780307277695

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Child

Alex Prud'homme

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.4 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

0307277690

ISBN13

9780307277695

Synopsis "My Life in France "

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is "captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page." (San Francisco Chronicle). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, 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 with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia's unforgettable story--struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe--unfolds with the spirit so key to Julia's success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of America's most endearing personalities.

Julia Child

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(California 1912 - 2004) She graduated from Smith College and during World War II worked for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in Ceylon and China, where she met Paul Child whom she married and moved to Paris with. After studying at Le Cordon Bleu and having worked in the kitchens of distinguished French chefs, in 1951 Julia Child opened her own cooking school, L'École des Trois Gourmandes, with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. Together, they wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963, Boston WGBH premiered the television program The French Chef, which made Julia Child a national star and with which she won the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Julia Child was decorated with the French government's Legion of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

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