Reviews
Julie & 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! https://netflixlife.com/2021/02/11/netflix-movies-watch-single/
Read MorePublishers Weekly enjoyed “thoroughly delicious” FRANCE IS A FEAST!
(Re-posting, as this failed to load earlier) The book arrives in stores 10/24, but feel free to pre-order as many copies as you want at any time – makes a lovely gift! France Is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child Alex Prud’homme and Katie Pratt. Thames & Hudson, $35…
Read MoreTres Bien: Booklist likes FIAF, too!
We’re having a good day, reviewer-wise, over here at “France is a Feast” HQ. Hot on the heels of PW, Booklist has given us a thumb’s up. Merci! France Is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child. Prud’homme, Alex (Author) and Pratt, Katie (Author) Oct 2017. 208 p. Thames & Hudson,…
Read MoreThanks chef Anita Lo + Wall St Journal!
Writing in the WSJ, she describes FCiA as “inspiring and engaging” https://graphics.wsj.com/image-grid/Who-Read-What-2016/3450/anita-lo-on-julia-child
Read MoreHappy 104th birthday to Julia Child, accidental revolutionary
I just came across this beautiful Jesse Kornbluth tribute to Julia and MY LIFE IN FRANCE from August, which would have marked her 104th birthday. Merci, Head Butler … now, what do you think of THE FRENCH CHEF IN AMERICA? Julia Child: My Life in France By JESSE KORNBLUTH Published: Aug 31, 2016 Category: Food and Wine…
Read MoreAssociated Press Review
The Ripple Effect offers a balanced and insightful assessment of what could emerge as the dominant issue in decades ahead. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the threat to what the author calls “the most valuable resource on earth” would do well to heed his message. Read the full review here >
Read MorePublishers Weekly starred review
Prud’homme, a journalist and the coauthor with Julia Child of My Life in France, examines crucial issues concerning the world’s finite supply of fresh water– pollution, water quantity (drought and flood), waste, and governance. Focusing on the U.S., he explores how water scarcity, population growth, and environmental degradation are forcing the country to a moment of reckoning on a…
Read MoreBooklist review
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century. Prud’homme, Alex (Author) Jun 2011. 448 p. Scribner, hardcover, $27.00. (9781416535454). 333.91. As development spreads and water resources are stretched to the limit, one essential resource, water, is becoming increasingly commodified and the subject of corporate interest and investment as well as lawsuits when consumers…
Read MoreKirkus review
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century Freelance journalist Prud’homme (The Cell Game: Sam Waksal’s Fast Money and False Promises—and the Fate of ImClone’s Cancer Drug, 2004, etc.) offers a comprehensive, even encyclopedic, survey of the dangers, debates, frustrations, failures, technology, greed, apathy and rage that whirlpool around the phenomenally…
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