If you want to know more about Julia AND Paul before The French Chef and after the peak of that series, this is a great book. If you want a glowing biography that shows this icon in an unfailingly positive light, this is NOT the book for you. A thorough, surprising, affectionate, and extraordinarily entertaining account of a truly remarkable life. Spitz chronicles Julia's friendships, her struggles, her heartwarming romance with Paul, and of course, the story of the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her triumphant TV career. There might not be a Food Network or even a PBS if Julia had not blazed the trail. He takes us beyond the image of Julia as the tall, eccentric woman with a funny voice who taught America how to cook, to establish her as a genuine rebel and beloved icon, a woman who redefined herself in middle age, helped to change the role of women in America, set the standard for how to create a public personality in the modern media world, and altered the way America eats and thinks of food. The definitive biography of Julia Child - with access to Julia's diaries and letters - written by the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed The Beatles and timed to Julia's 100th birthday.įrom Pasadena to Cambridge to New York, Washington, D.C., India, Ceylon, Paris, Marseilles, Santa Barbara, and Maine, Bob Spitz re-creates an extraordinary life.
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