My Life in France - Brossura

Child, Julia; Prud'homme, Alex

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ISBN 10: 0307277690 ISBN 13: 9780307277695

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007

Riassunto

A memoir begun just months before Child's death describes the legendary food expert's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman from Pasadena who cannot cook or speak any French to the publication of her legendary Mastering cookbooks and her winning the hearts of America as "The French Chef." Reprint. 175,000 first printing.

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“A delight.” —The New York Times

“What a joy!” —The Washington Post

“Endlessly engaging.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Inspiring.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Delighful and ebulliently written. . . . Her joy just about jumps off the books pages.” —Christian Science Monitor

“Lively, infectious. . . . Her elegant but unfussy prose pulls the reader into her stories.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“Captivating. . . . Her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.” —San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II; afterward she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu, and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963, Boston’s WGBH launched The French Chef television series, which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Several public television shows and numerous cookbooks followed. She died in 2004.

Alex Prud'homme is Julia Child's great-nephew and the coauthor of her autobiography, My Life in France, which was adapted into the movie Julie & Julia. He is also the author of The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know, and The Cell Game, and he is the coauthor (with Michael Cherkasky) of Forewarned: Why the Government Is Failing to Protect Us--and What We Must Do to Protect Ourselves. Prud'homme's journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, and People.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307277690
• ISBN 13: 9780307277695
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368