Julia Child: A Life

Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)

With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child's unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in a World War II spy station to bewildered amateur cook and finally to the Cordon Bleu in Paris, the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially American, right down to her little-known recipe for classic tuna fish casserole, Shapiro's Julia Child personifies her own most famous lesson: that learning how to cook means learning how to live.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 07/01/2009
ISBN: 9780143116448
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.22h x 5.02w x 0.56d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/23/2009 pg. 20