Julia Child
With A. Prud'homme
A classic memoir of life in post-war Paris by a legendary chef and writer
When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, a 'six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian', she spoke barely a few words of French, and didn't know the first thing about cooking. 'What's a shallot?' she asked her husband Paul, as they waited for their sole meuniere during their very first lunch in France, which she was to describe later as 'the most exciting meal of my life'.
As she fell in love with French culture, buying food at local markets, sampling the local bistros and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life began to change forever, and we follow her extraordinary transformation from kitchen ingenue to internationally renowned (and internationally loved) expert in French cuisine. Bursting with Child's adventurous and humorous spirit, My Life in France captures post-war Paris with wonderful vividness and charm.
- Julie & Julia, a film partly based on this book, starring Meryl Streep and directed by Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally; Sleepless in Seattle), will be released in theatres across New Zealand in September 2009
- Huge bestseller in the US and widely acclaimed
- Child was very respected and well loved and as a writer and TV personality and is a legendary name to foodies everywhere: her cookbooks are still in print
Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She worked for the OSS during World War II; afterwards she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). From 1963 to 1973 she presented The French Chef on American television, and several other television shows and numerous cookbooks followed. She died in 2004.
Details: ISBN 9780715639009 Duckworth PB Nov-09 29.99
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