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Pub. Date
2006
Description
Here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors...
2) French food
Author
Publisher
Creative Education & Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"An elementary introduction to the relationship between cooking and French culture, the effect of local agriculture on the diets of different regions, common dishes such as ratatouille, and recipe instructions"--Provided by publisher.
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Formats
Description
In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to cook and shaped the nation's tastes in the bargain.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005, c2009
Description
Thirty-year-old Julie Powell lives in a rundown apartment in Queens and works at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. Desperately needing something to free her from the monotony, she invents a deranged assignment: Using her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia will cook all of the cookbook's 524 recipes within the span of one year.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
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