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Julia Child: A Life (Penguin Lives)
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Item Description...
Overview
Traces the life and career of the beloved "French Chef" from her youth as a California party girl and her clerical work in a World War II spy station to her marriage to Paul Child and her revolutionary choice to work as a television cooking instructor. Movie Tie-in. Reprint.
Publishers Description
The delicious life of one of the most beloved figures in twentiethcentury American culture-soon to be played by Meryl Streep in a major motion picture
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.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 185
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 5" Height: 7"
Weight: 0.35 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jul 28, 2009
ISBN 0143116444
EAN 9780143116448
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 | Dull and pointless Nov 10, 2009 |
Two big problems. One usually wants a biography to be interesting, to grab your attention, in either a positive or negative (or best, a nuanced) view of the person's life. This book is just dull and pedantic. Julia Child was a fun person who led an interesting life. There's more excitement in the cover picture than the whole rest of the book. (And yes, that is the only photo in the book.)
The second problem is that this volume seems to mostly be a retelling of Julia Child's autobiography with a few controversies (for balance I'd assume) added in. There are quite a few people who could be interviewed to add to it. What did the television folks working with her think of her? Other chefs? People who were inspired to cook by Julia Child's books and shows? They're not here in this book.
| | |  | Fun, Quick Biography Oct 4, 2009 |
| Not a lot of new information here but a fun, quick biography of my favorite culinary personality. A nice addition to my cooking collection. | | | | Dull and dry Sep 29, 2009 |
This biography of Julia Child reads like it was written for a junior high school term paper. Written entirely in unchanging third-person narrative, the reader sees, "Julia did this. Julia did that. She went here, and there. And then she went over here. To do that."
Sources are not cited in the text.
Lacking any photos except for the cover, this volume is a chore to read. | | |  | Just an overview Sep 3, 2009 |
| This is an okay book if you just want an overview of Julia Child's life. It doesn't seem to offer anything new in the way of facts or interpretation and I was disappointed that it was a softcover (my fault for not paying more attention when ordering) and the fact that the cover was dented and torn when I received it. I like my new books to be pristine. | | |  | A disappointment Aug 26, 2009 |
Having recently re-read "My Life in France" by Julia herself, I was disappointed that most of the information in this book is taken from Julia's book, with the exception, for example, of the fact that Julia was initially (and in common with American cultural norms of the time) an open homophobe and that she was against the emerging organic food movement, being more in sympathy with mass producers of meats, fruits and vegetables. While it might be important, for the historical record, to present a more rounded picture of Julia than she presents herself (and than we gained from watching her on TV), the effort to "bring her down a peg or two" seems almost contrived.
If you haven't read "My Life in France," buy it instead of this book. If you have, buy one of Julia's cookbooks that you don't already own. Both give more and longer-lasting pleasure. | | | Write your own review about Julia Child: A Life (Penguin Lives)
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