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OverviewThe enchanting, bestselling memoir by America's most beloved chef, My Life in France is being reissued to coincide with the movie based on Julia Child's life, starring Meryl Streep. Illustrations throughout. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julia Child , Alex Prud'hommePublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Random House Inc Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9780307474858ISBN 10: 0307474852 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 23 June 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsDelightful and ebulliently written. . . . Her joy just about jumps off the book's pages. -- The 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 Author Information"Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during WWII; afterwards she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu, and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bartholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963 Boston's WGBH launched ""The French Chef"" television series, which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966; subsequent public television shows were ""Julia Child & Company"" (1978), ""Julia Child & More Company"" (1980)--both of which were accompanied by cookbooks--and ""Dinner at Julia's"" (1983), followed by ""Cooking with Master Chefs"" (1993), ""In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs"" (1995), and her collaboration with Jacques Pepin, ""Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home"" (1999). The 40th anniversary edition of ""Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1"" was published in 2001. Alex Prud'homme is Julia's grandnephew. A freelance writer, his journalism has appeared in ""The New York Times,"" ""The New Yorker,"" ""Vanity Fair, """"Time, ""and ""People. ""He is the author of The Cell Game and the co-author (with Michael Cherkasky) of Forewarned. He lives in Brooklyn, New York." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |