Short description
Exuberant, affectionate, and boundlessly charming ("The New York Times"), this is the delightful and highly acclaimed memoir from the woman who revolutionized American cooking in the 20th century.
Long description
Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine 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 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 them across the globe - unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.
Review
A delight. -- The New York Times
What a joy! -- The Washington Post
Endlessly engaging. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Inspiring.. -- Entertainment Weekly
Delighful and ebulliently written. . . . Her joy just about jumps off the books pages.
-- Christian Science Monitor
Lively, infectious. . . . Her elegant but unfussy prose pulls the reader into her stories. -- Chicago Sun-Times
Captivating. . . . Her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.
-- San Francisco Chronicle