My Life in France

My Life in France
by Alex Prud'Homme, Julia Child

My Life in France
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Author: Alex Prud'Homme, Julia Child
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-09
ISBN: 0307277690
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Anchor

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Book Review: A great guide for the foodie as well as the traveler.
Summary: 5 Stars

I am an instructor at the International Tour Management Institute (www.itmisf.com) as well as a tour director. I spend 4 months a year as a tour director in France and I have been to many of the places that Julia refers to in her fantastic book. My favorite is La Couronne in historic Rouen. I am fortunate enough to take my fellow travelers there for a gourmet lunch on a regular basis! Vive la France!

Summary of My Life in France

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she 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. Julia's unforgettable story - struggles 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 them across the globe - unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.

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