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"The book opens in 1948 with a newly-married Julia Child seeing Le Havre, France for the first time. Julia's voice is clear and the reader feels the enthusiam and uncertainty she as she contemplates the life ahead of her.
Sensory details of her first years in Paris fill the pages. Relying on detailed letters her husband Paul sent to his twin brother, Charlie, back in the States, Julia shares anecdotes of food and wine, her new marriage, life in Paris and life at the Cordon Bleu.
The books moves through Julia's years at the Cordon Bleu, L'Ecole des Gormettes, the cooking school she founded with Simone Beck Fischbacher and Louisette Bertholle in 1952, and their subsequent collaboration on French Home Cooking, finally published as Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Later chapters chronicle Julia's PBS cooking show, The French Chef."
Dede Perkins, Resident Scholar
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"A combination of autobiography, armchair travel, restaurant and cuisine commentary, and love story, MY LIFE IN FRANCE is a perfectly delightful book.
Child grew up as a daughter of wealth and privilege in Southern California and being too tall for the military as WWII began to rage in Europe and the Pacific, she joined the forerunner of the CIA. Paul Child was also an intelligence officer and returned to diplomatic service after the war. They met during their wartime service and in the late 1940's they moved to Europe where Paul was employed in various diplomatic assignments for the next dozen years.
Prepared with the assistance of her nephew, Julia Child's memoir covers her determination to learn to cook, her incredible perfectionism as she worked on her first published cookbook, her many dinner parties, her career as a popular PBS host, her travels, her adjustment to a life of celebrity, - and threaded through every story and shining from every page - her lifelong infatuation with, love for, and devotion to her husband.
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A R Pickett, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- chef
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Food
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- chef
Age:
- 40's-50's
- long lived adults
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 6 ()
United States
Yes
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
Century:
- 1930's-1950's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- very happy
- in awe
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- gentle
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- More 6-10 B&W
- A lot 11-15 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
- little dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
- 26-50% of book
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