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My life in France : book club in a bag

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "Gastronomicheskoe puteshestvie po Frant︠s︡ii samogo izvestnogo v mire kulinara"
  • "Ming chu Zhu li ya chai er de hui yi lu"
  • "Гастрономическое путешествие по Франции самого известного в мире кулинара"
  • "Ming chu zhu li ya.chai er de hui yi lu"
  • "名廚茱莉雅.柴爾德回憶錄"
  • "Ming chu Zhuliya Chai'erde hui yi lu"
  • "Ming chu Mo li ya chai er de hui yi lu"
  • "名廚茉莉雅.柴爾德回憶錄"
  • "名廚茱莉雅・柴爾德回憶錄"

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  • "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.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her "true calling.""@en
  • "The story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors in the local markets, and enrolled in the Cordon Bleu. She teamed up with two fellow gourmettes, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, to help them with a book on French cooking for Americans. Filled with her husband's beautiful black-and-white photographs as well as family snapshots, this memoir is laced with wonderful stories about the French character, particularly in the world of food, and the way of life that Julia embraced so wholeheartedly. Bon appétit!--From publisher description."@en
  • "Here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors in the local markets, and enrolled in the Cordon Bleu. She teamed up with two fellow gourmettes, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, to help them with a book on French cooking for Americans. Filled with her husband's beautiful black-and-white photographs as well as family snapshots, this memoir is laced with wonderful stories about the French character, particularly in the world of food, and the way of life that Julia embraced so wholeheartedly. Bon appétit!--From publisher description."@en
  • "Here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors in the local markets, and enrolled in the Cordon Bleu. She teamed up with two fellow gourmettes, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, to help them with a book on French cooking for Americans. Filled with her husband's beautiful black-and-white photographs as well as family snapshots, this memoir is laced with wonderful stories about the French character, particularly in the world of food, and the way of life that Julia embraced so wholeheartedly. Bon appétit!--From publisher description."
  • "Starred Review. With Julia Child's death in 2004 at age 91, her grandnephew Prud'homme (The Cell Game) completed this playful memoir of the famous chef's first, formative sojourn in France with her new husband, Paul Child, in 1949. The couple met during WWII in Ceylon, working for the OSS, and soon after moved to Paris, where Paul worked for the U.S. Information Service. Child describes herself as a "rather loud and unserious Californian," 36, six-foot-two and without a word of French, while Paul was 10 years older, an urbane, well-traveled Bostonian. Startled to find the French amenable and the food delicious, Child enrolled at the Cordon Bleu and toiled with increasing zeal under the rigorous tutelage of m̌inence grise Chef Bugnard. "Jackdaw Julie," as Paul called her, collected every manner of culinary tool and perfected the recipes in her little kitchen on rue de l'Universit ̌("Roo de Loo"). She went on to start an informal school with sister gourmandes Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, who were already at work on a French cookbook for American readers, although it took Child's know-how to transform the tome--after nine years, many title changes and three publishers--into the bestselling Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). This is a valuable record of gorgeous meals in bygone Parisian restaurants, and the secret arts of a culinary genius."@en
  • "The legendary food expert describes her years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman who could not cook or speak any French to the publication of her cookbooks and becoming "The French Chef.""

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Autobiography"
  • "Electronic resource"@en
  • "Child, Julia"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Autobiographie"

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  • "My life in France : book club in a bag"@en
  • "My life in France"
  • "My life in France"@en
  • "Moje życie we Francji"
  • "Moje życie we Francji"@pl
  • "我在法國的歲月 : 名廚茉莉雅.柴爾德回憶錄"
  • "我在法國的歲月 : 名廚茱莉雅.柴爾德回憶錄"
  • "Wo zai Fa guo de sui yue : ming chu Mo li ya chai er de hui yi lu"
  • "줄리아의즐거운인생"
  • "Jullia ŭi chŭlgŏun insaeng"
  • "Gastronomicheskoe puteshestvie po Frant︠s︡ii : udovolʹstvie, kotoroe my poluchaem ot vkusnogo stola, ot samoĭ zhizni beskonechno!"
  • "Гастрономическое путешествие по Франции : удовольствие, которое мы получаем от вкусного стола, от самой жизни бесконечно!"
  • "Wo zai Faguo de sui yue : ming chu Zhuliya Chai'erde hui yi lu"
  • "My life in France [Electronic resource]"@en
  • "我在法國的歲月 : 名廚茱莉雅・柴爾德回憶錄"
  • "My Life in France"@en
  • "Wo zai fa guo de sui yue : ming chu zhu li ya.chai er de hui yi lu"

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