Great product!Product DescriptionThe bestselling story of Julias years in Franceand the basis for Julie & Julia starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adamsin 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. Julias unforgettable storystruggles 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 globeunfolds with the spirit so key to Julias success as a chef and a writer brilliantly capturing one of America??s most endearing personalities.Amazon.com ReviewBook Description
Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and he"television show The French Chef?? but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir?? she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.
Indeed?? when she first arrived in 1948 with her husband?? Paul?? 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. Julia's unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a cook and teacher and writer?? brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.
Julie & Julia is now a major motion picture (releas