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https:\/\/www.librariannextdoor.com\/2012\/06\/my-life-in-france.html<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Book News, June 16th<\/a><\/div>\n
My Life in France<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By\u00a0Meredith<\/a>Posted in\u00a0book news<\/a>,\u00a0memoirs<\/a>,nonfiction<\/a>,\u00a0reading<\/a>,\u00a0stories<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\"\"<\/a>In the fall of 1948, Julia Child and her husband Paul arrived in Le Havre, France for Paul\u2019s new position at the American Embassy in Paris. A simple meal in Rouen, at Restaurant La Couronne, would begin Julia\u2019s love affair with French food \u2013 an affair that would spawn a lifelong fascination and obsession with food and change Julia\u2019s life forever.
\nIt is impossible not to love Julia Child. Her infectious enthusiasm seems to pervade every aspect of her cooking. Published two years after her death in 2006 and co-written by her grand-nephew Alex Prud\u2019homme,\u00a0My Life in France<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was Child\u2019s sumptuous memoir of her time in Paris and Marseille in the early 1950\u2032s.\u00a0Filled with incredibly detailed memories (including precise and deliciously descriptive recollections of specific meals),\u00a0My Life in France<\/em>fills you with Julia\u2019s warmth and passion for France, French food and the experience of eating extraordinary food.<\/strong>
\nThis book is not an autobiography in the strictest sense; rather,\u00a0it\u2019s a collection of stories and memories linked together by food \u2013 the food Julia loved to eat and the food she learned to craft and create during her years in France.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s focused primarily on the first half of the 1950\u2032s decade, when Julia attended Le Cordon Bleu, and then met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, the two women with whom she would write the classic French cookbook,\u00a0Mastering the Art of French Cooking<\/em>. Her stories are accompanied by black-and-white photographs taken by her husband Paul and together, they give readers an intimate look at Child\u2019s life in what she called her \u201cspiritual homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n

The best way to describe it is to say that I fell in love with French food \u2013 the tastes, the processes, the history, the endless variations, the rigorous discipline, the creativity, the wonderful people, the equipment, the rituals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though Child and Prud\u2019homme relied on family letters to help fill in some of the blanks,\u00a0the level of detail in\u00a0My Life in France\u00a0<\/em>is still astonishing, especially considering that Julia was recalling all of these memories in her 90s! And while her nephew did do the bulk of the actual writing, it is Julia\u2019s voice that shines through on every page.<\/strong>\u00a0You can practically hear her, with her distinctive voice, describing the simplicity and the intricacy of French food. Post-war France comes alive and it\u2019s as if you\u2019re there with her, bobbing in and out of the little shops, lingering in the market over the fresh produce and flushing with excitement in her attic kitchen as she experiments and triumphs. Her single-minded determination to master French cooking is inspiring and her relentless belief in her cookbook, despite several rejections, is a lesson in perseverance.
\nOf course, Julia Child fans should read\u00a0My Life in France<\/em>, but even if you\u2019re simply a fan of food or a fan of France, this memoir is the perfect companion.\u00a0With sensory details and a palpable zest for life, Julia Child\u2019s\u00a0My Life in France<\/em>\u00a0is as comforting as a croissant and\u00a0chocolat chaud<\/em>\u00a0on a rainy day.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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