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In Julia Child Rules, Karen Karbo has written that rare bird of a book: one that manages on every page to be as enlightening as it is entertaining, as smart as it is funny. In prose as clean and sharp as your best kitchen knife, Karbo gives us a portrait of the incomparable Julia Child that's intimate, inspiring, and unlike anything I've ever read about Child before. I want to make wallpaper out of this original and beautiful book just so I can have Karbo's unparalleled wit and wisdom always on hand. --Cheryl Strayed, author of the New York Times bestseller Wild<br><br><br> If you love Julia Child (and who doesn't?), then you will love Karen Karbo's smart and entertaining book. Karbo's take on Ms. Child's life is like being invited to a lively dinner party where ideas and experiences are related with great verve and wisdom. Read this book and discover why Julia does indeed rule! Bon appetit. --Whitney Otto, author of the New York Times bestseller How to Make an American Quilt<br><br><br> Karen Karbo gives us a riveting, zingy new perspective on the indomitable, cheery, lovable, hardworking French Chef. Julia Child Rules cracked me up as it inspired and moved me. It made me want to cook with Julia and Karen in a cramped, under-equipped Paris kitchen, bustling about in aprons, swilling wine and whisking and deglazing, then eating with all the gusto in the world. --Kate Christensen, author of Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites

In Julia Child Rules, Karen Karbo has written that rare bird of a book: one that manages on every page to be as enlightening as it is entertaining, as smart as it is funny. In prose as clean and sharp as your best kitchen knife, Karbo gives us a portrait of the incomparable Julia Child that's intimate, inspiring, and unlike anything I've ever read about Child before. I want to make wallpaper out of this original and beautiful book just so I can have Karbo's unparalleled wit and wisdom always on hand. --Cheryl Strayed, author of the New York Times bestseller Wild If you love Julia Child (and who doesn't?), then you will love Karen Karbo's smart and entertaining book. Karbo's take on Ms. Child's life is like being invited to a lively dinner party where ideas and experiences are related with great verve and wisdom. Read this book and discover why Julia does indeed rule! Bon appetit. --Whitney Otto, author of the New York Times bestseller How to Make an American Quilt Karen Karbo gives us a riveting, zingy new perspective on the indomitable, cheery, lovable, hardworking French Chef. Julia Child Rules cracked me up as it inspired and moved me. It made me want to cook with Julia and Karen in a cramped, under-equipped Paris kitchen, bustling about in aprons, swilling wine and whisking and deglazing, then eating with all the gusto in the world. --Kate Christensen, author of Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites The love affair with the iconic Julia Child continues in Karbo's guide to living with abandon, as Child always did, which gives a window into the legendary cook, author, and television host's fascinating backstory. One of the lessons Karbo draws from Child's life is that one must face adversity rather than being daunted by it. And from the start, Child, a red-haired, freckle-faced girl who grew to 6'3, experienced a great deal of knocks. But rather than dwell on her awkward appearance, she felt 'free to bee

In Julia Child Rules, Karen Karbo has written that rare bird of a book: one that manages on every page to be as enlightening as it is entertaining, as smart as it is funny. In prose as clean and sharp as your best kitchen knife, Karbo gives us a portrait of the incomparable Julia Child that's intimate, inspiring, and unlike anything I've ever read about Child before. I want to make wallpaper out of this original and beautiful book just so I can have Karbo's unparalleled wit and wisdom always on hand. --Cheryl Strayed, author of the New York Times bestseller Wild If you love Julia Child (and who doesn't?), then you will love Karen Karbo's smart and entertaining book. Karbo's take on Ms. Child's life is like being invited to a lively dinner party where ideas and experiences are related with great verve and wisdom. Read this book and discover why Julia does indeed rule! Bon appetit. --Whitney Otto, author of the New York Times bestseller How to Make an American Quilt Karen Karbo gives us a riveting, zingy new perspective on the indomitable, cheery, lovable, hardworking French Chef. Julia Child Rules cracked me up as it inspired and moved me. It made me want to cook with Julia and Karen in a cramped, under-equipped Paris kitchen, bustling about in aprons, swilling wine and whisking and deglazing, then eating with all the gusto in the world. --Kate Christensen, author of Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites The love affair with the iconic Julia Child continues in Karbo's guide to living with abandon, as Child always did, which gives a window into the legendary cook, author, and television host's fascinating backstory. One of the lessons Karbo draws from Child's life is that one must face adversity rather than being daunted by it. And from the start, Child, a red-haired, freckle-faced girl who grew to 6'3, experienced a great deal of knocks. But rather than dwell on her awkward appearance, she felt 'free to bed

In Julia Child Rules, Karen Karbo has written that rare bird of a book: one that manages on every page to be as enlightening as it is entertaining, as smart as it is funny. In prose as clean and sharp as your best kitchen knife, Karbo gives us a portrait of the incomparable Julia Child that's intimate, inspiring, and unlike anything I've ever read about Child before. I want to make wallpaper out of this original and beautiful book just so I can have Karbo's unparalleled wit and wisdom always on hand. --Cheryl Strayed, author of the New York Times bestseller Wild<br><br><br> If you love Julia Child (and who doesn't?), then you will love Karen Karbo's smart and entertaining book. Karbo's take on Ms. Child's life is like being invited to a lively dinner party where ideas and experiences are related with great verve and wisdom. Read this book and discover why Julia does indeed rule! Bon appetit. --Whitney Otto, author of the New York Times bestseller How to Make an American Quilt

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Novelist, journalist, and witty, no-nonsense social commentator, Karen Karbo is the author most recently of How Georgia Became O'Keeffe:Lessons on the Art of Living, hailed by Vanity Fair as ""simply a revelation."" How to Hepburn, published in 2007, was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as ""an exuberant celebration of a great original""; The Gospel According to Coco Chanel, published in 2009, became a national bestseller. Karen's first novel, Trespassers Welcome Here, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Village Voice Top Ten Book of the Year. Her other two adult novels, The Diamond Lane and Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me, were also named New York Times Notable Books. Her 2004 memoir, The Stuff of Life, about the last year she spent with her father before his death, was an NYT Notable Book, a People Magazine Critics' Choice, a Books for a Better Life Award finalist, and a winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Non-fiction. Her short stories, essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Outside, the New York Times, salon.com and other magazines. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a winner of the General Electric Younger Writer Award. Karen grew up in Los Angeles, California and lives in Portland, Oregon where, like the 20th century cultural icons profiled in her biography-cum-self-help guides, she kicks ass.

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