Appetite for Life The Biography of Julia Child

Name: Appetite for Life The Biography of Julia Child
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ISBN: 9780307948380

ISBN-10: 0307948382

ISBN-13: 9780307948380

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Noel Riley Fitch

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Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our hearts and kitchens. Yet few know the richly varied private life that lies behind this icon, whose statuesque height and warmly enthused warble have become synonymous with the art of cooking.In this biography we meet the earthy and outrageous Julia, who, at age eighty-five, remains a complex role model. Fitch, who had access to all of Julia's private letters and diaries, takes us through her life, from her exuberant youth as a high-spirited California girl to her years at Smith College, where she was at the center of every prank and party. When most of her girlfriends married, Julia…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Noeuml;l Riley Fitch is the author ofSylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and ThirtiesandAnaiuml;s: The Erotic Life of Anaiuml;s Nin, as well as other books chronicling the French-American artistic experience. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles and on the Left Bank in Paris. She has one grown daughter.



Introduction


Western Pioneers and Blue Blood



Beginnings



A Place in the Sun



Education of an Extrovert



Smith College: Ivy Walls and Jelly Donuts



Career Search


Spying and Romance



India Intrigue



To China with Love



Eastward Ho



Flavors of Marriage


An American in Paris (Marseilles, Bonn, and Oslo)



ï¿½ Paris



Cordon Bleu



Marseilles: Fishing for Reds



A Little Town in Germany



Back Home (and Cooking) on the Range



"I Am at Heart a Viking"


Our Lady of the Ladle



Launching the Book



Let Them Eat Quiche: The French Chef



Provenï¿½al Winters



The Media Are the Message



Celebrity and Solitude


Empress of Cuisine



Riding the Second Wave



A Time of Loss



The Company She Keeps



Pacific Overtures



Seasoned with Love



Notre Dame de la Cuisine



Do Not Go Gentle


Appendices


Family Trees


Television Series


Acknowledgments and Sources


Notes


Bibliography


Index