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Kirkus Review of my latest book, “Dinner with the President”
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alex-prudhomme/dinner-with-the-president-prudhomme/
Read MoreMy new book, “BORN HUNGRY: Julia Child Becomes “the French Chef” is out, and selling like hot cakes (or maybe croissants)
Born Hungry is a colorful children’s book about how Julia fell in love with her husband Paul during WWII, made her first recipe (for shark repellant!) in Sri Lanka, and learned how to cook delicious meals in la belle France during what she called the “favorite years of my life.” Illustrated by Sarah Green. With…
Read MoreJulie & Julia = Netflix’s #1 Romantic Comedy for V-Day
Happy V-Day (almost) Juliaphiles — Netflix is loving J&J for Sunday viewing – give it a watch, alone or together – and bon appetit! 5 best Netflix movies to watch if you’re single on Valentine’s Day 2021
Read MoreBig News – RBG filmmakers next subject is Julia Child!
After charting Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s rise to the top of the legal world, the filmmaking team behind “RBG” is reuniting to tell the story of a different kind of trailblazer: Julia Child, the television chef and cookbook author who taught America how to eat. Co-directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen will examine Child’s unconventional life, one that saw her seize…
Read MoreTrump Rolls Back Clean Water Protections to 1986: the ripple effect will hurt us all
Amazon on The Ripple Effect: “a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative … a major achievement.”
AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What…
Read More“France is a Feast” — now popping-up in Napa, CA
Now through September 2, 2019 France is a Feast:the Photographic Journey of Paul & Julia Child presented by Napa Valley Museum YountvilleThe CIA at Copia, 500 1st Street, Napa, CA
Read MoreOur Paul Child photo show, “France is a Feast,” now popping up at the CIA at Copia, in Napa, CA
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Read MorePaul Child photo show, FRANCE IS A FEAST, at CIA/Copia in Napa, CA
Next time you’re in Napa CA check out our Paul Child photo show at the CIA at Copia, and see a young Julia Child discovering French food, and herself, in postwar Paris and Marseille — it’s free, and runs through 9/2/19 On Tour: France is a Feast: the Photographic Journey of Paul & Julia Child…
Read MoreChef Julia Child’s biographer recalls his great aunt and uncle
Back in the halcyon days of August, the esteemed Ellsworth American was kind enough to send reporter Kate Cough to my reading at the Northeast Harbor, Maine, Library. Her report begins like this … NORTHEAST HARBOR —When Julia Child got her first microwave oven “it was this magical space-age thing from NASA,” says her grandnephew Alex…
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