Julia Child
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 4.18 | 75335 Users | 7228 Reviews
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| Title | : | My Life in France |
| Author | : | Julia Child |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | April 4th 2006 by Knopf Publishing Group (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Food and Drink. Food. Biography. Cultural. France |
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The bestselling story of Julia's years in France--and the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams--in her own words.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.
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| Original Title: | My Life in France |
| ISBN: | 1400043468 (ISBN13: 9781400043460) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Julia Child, Paul Child |
| Setting: | Paris,1948(France) |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 75335 Users | 7228 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books My Life in France
I did not grow up on Julia Child. Im too young to have watched her TV show, and my mom wasnt the type to own any of her cookbooks (we stuck to mostly Italian recipes handed down from my dads mom and ranch-style cooking- or, if we were unlucky, my British nannys traditional English dishes she insisted we try). I barely knew who she was before I started cooking a few years ago. I admit that I wasnt really interested in her until the recent movie Julie and Julia, which definitely made me want toYears ago, in preparation for a class project in a YA Lit class in library school, my professor asked me who my hero was. (The having of a hero apparently being a given.) I told her that I didn't really have heroes and she was aghast. "No heroes?" she asked sadly, before brightening just as quickly and asking, "What about Elenore Roosevelt?"After reading My Life in France, however, I am happy to report that I am as close to having a hero as I've ever been. Julia Child: left-leaning, wayward
I found this an absorbing read, and I'm no foodie. But I think what's striking in this memoir of Child's love affair with French food is her drive, her dedication to excellence, her passion--there's something attractive in that no matter what the endeavor--as well as fascinating to get a picture of such an elite, esoteric world as high cuisine. It all started for Julia in 1948, when she had her first French meal. When she came to France she knew only a smattering of such French phrases as "
I think the reasons I wanted to read this book are that Julia's always thought of as a late bloomer, and because her travels were so influential in helping her discover herself.Certainly, her life had great adventure. Highlights: p. 268Too tired and busy to go to France. "But then we looked at each other and repeated a favorite phrase from our diplomatic days: "Remember, 'No one's more important than people.'!" In other words, friendship is the most important thing - not career or housework, or
I love biographies. I love food memoirs. I love books about places I've never been, sights I haven't seen. My Life in France is all of the above and then some.Throw in Julia's unique personality, effervescence and other equally entertaining folks such as her cookbook collaborator. Add a dash of disappointment, a sprinkle of frustration becomes the perfect story with its ups and downs, tensions.One of my favorite qualities Julia possessed was her ability to state things as they were, no
If you're a fan of Julia Child or French cooking, or love France, you'll love this witty book. Co-written near the end of her lifetime, My Life is France gives an intimate perspective of Julia Child's joy with life, France, and cooking. If you own Mastering the Art of French Cooking, this is a perfect companion piece. It's also a great gift for good and/or aspiring cooks. It might even inspire the poor or non-cook.
Rating: 3.875* of fiveThe Book Report: Truth in advertising had no greater champion than Julia Child. Her book is called exactly and precisely what it is: The narrative of her life in France. She begins her book on November 3, 1948, with the Child family landing at Le Havre, getting into their gigantic Buick station wagon, and motoring off across northern France towards Paris. They stop at thirty-six-year-old native Californian Mrs. Child's first French restaurant, La Couronne, where her husband
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