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Title	:	My Life in France
Author	:	Julia Child
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	April 4th 2006 by Knopf Publishing Group (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Food and Drink. Food. Biography. Cultural. France

My Life in France Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

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The bestselling story of Julia's years in France--and the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams--in her own words. Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia's unforgettable story--struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe--unfolds with the spirit so key to Julia's success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of America's most endearing personalities.

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Original Title:	My Life in France
ISBN:	1400043468 (ISBN13: 9781400043460)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Julia Child, Paul Child
Setting:	Paris,1948(France)

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This was a Christmas gift from my best-friend-forever Ariel, and a perfect read not only for foodies and urban farmgirls like myself, but anyone who's going through the "if not now, when?" blues. As some previous Goodreaders have already noted, it's a bit of a revelation to read about someone so famous (or infamous, if you've seen Dan Ackroyd's histrionic impersonation of "Jules") being such a late bloomer. This is America, and even though Miss Thing found herself in France, we prefer our great

I love Julia Child, it turns out! This memoir is fun and I want to live her life. I want to live in Paris, Marseille, Oslo and Boston too, creating sumptuous recipes, hanging out with James Beard and decorating a summer house in Provence. Seriously, why am I not her? I wouldn't even mind being dead since 2004.I am totally convinced that her cookbooks are the foremost authorities on French cooking, now that I've seen how many times she would experiment with a basic recipe to get it right. Makes

I've never been a fan of Julia Child, and whenever I ran across her show on PBS I'd make a conscious effort to change the channel, which was why I was surprised when My Life in France turned out to be one of the most well-written, engaging Autobiographies I've read in quite awhile. The book covers roughly the same time period as the movie Julie & Julia except that it extends into the mid-70's and discusses the beginning of her TV career and the writing of her second book. Even though it was

This is a autobiography of Julia Child. I was too young to have been a fan of her cooking show, but I do own one of her cookbooks. It amazes me how one event in life can alter the rest of your life...forever. Her pivotal moment was moving to France. I enjoyed her story. She found her passion and then she sought to perfect it. I admire that kind of dedication....it was sort of a labor of love for her. I was completely impressed with her tenacity..... 4 stars

I really liked the style of how this book was written--very organized, just as Julia was! Can you imagine writing such a cookbook as she did with no computer to keep tabs on all the testing, changes, etc? She would have loved Good Eats when Alton Brown does all his chemistry talk especially with all the testing of mayonnaise, of all things! I realized early on that Julia and I would not be friends--she was so focused and intense. Was anyone else surprised that she didn't watch tv until after she



I did not grow up on Julia Child. Im too young to have watched her TV show, and my mom wasnt the type to own any of her cookbooks (we stuck to mostly Italian recipes handed down from my dads mom and ranch-style cooking- or, if we were unlucky, my British nannys traditional English dishes she insisted we try). I barely knew who she was before I started cooking a few years ago. I admit that I wasnt really interested in her until the recent movie Julie and Julia, which definitely made me want to