{"id":1066,"date":"2012-08-28T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2012-08-28T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:44:11","slug":"discuss-my-life-in-france-with-me-on-leonard-lopates-show-913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/2012\/08\/28\/discuss-my-life-in-france-with-me-on-leonard-lopates-show-913\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss &#8220;My Life in France&#8221; with me on Leonard Lopate&#8217;s show 9\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/\">The Leonard Lopate Show<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Host:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/people\/leonard-lopate\/\">Leonard Lopate<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>August-September&#8217;s Book:\u00a0<em>My Life in France,<\/em>\u00a0by Julia Child and Alex Prud&#8217;homme<\/h2>\n<h3>Thursday, September 13, 2012<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imghttp___media_wnyc_org_media_photologue_photos_MyLifeinFrance_jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wnyc.org\/media\/photologue\/photos\/cache\/MyLifeinFrance_medium_image.jpg\" alt=\"My Life in France\" \/><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/series\/book-club\/\">The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/series\/book-club\/\">More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nJulia Child is widely credited with single handedly teaching America about the pleasures of good<em>\u00a0<\/em>cooking with her groundbreaking cookbook\u00a0<em>Mastering the Art of French Cooking\u00a0<\/em>and her television show\u00a0<em>The French Chef<\/em>. She would have turned 100 years old on August 15, and to celebrate her contributions to cooking and culture, the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club selection for August-September is her memoir,\u00a0<a title=\"buy this book at Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0307277690\/wnycorg-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>My Life in France<\/em><\/a>, written with her grand-nephew\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/people\/r\/?n=Alex+Prud%E2%80%99homme\">Alex Prud\u2019homme<\/a>. He joins us to talk about her life, how she learned to cook in France, and how she became a brilliant teacher and writer. When she passed away in 2004, she and Alex were working on the book, about what Julia Child described as the best years of her life, and Alex finished it and published it in 2005.<br \/>\n<strong>Start reading now and leave your comments and questions below! Alex Prud\u2019homme will be here September 13 to discuss the book and the life and legacy of his remarkable great-aunt, Julia Child.<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/2009\/oct\/19\/julia-child\/\">Listen to Julia Child on the Leonard Lopate Show in 1993.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h4>GUESTS:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/people\/alex-prudhomme\/\">Alex Prud&#8217;homme<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>TAGS:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/tags\/cooking\/\">cooking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/tags\/food\/\">food<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/tags\/france\/\">france<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/tags\/julia_child\/\">julia child<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/tags\/memoir\/\">memoir<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/2012\/sep\/13\/august-septembers-book-emmy-life-franceem-julia-child-and-alex-prudhomme\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leonard Lopate Show Host:\u00a0Leonard Lopate August-September&#8217;s Book:\u00a0My Life in France,\u00a0by Julia Child and Alex Prud&#8217;homme Thursday, September 13, 2012 The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club More Julia Child is widely credited with single handedly teaching America about the pleasures of good\u00a0cooking with her groundbreaking cookbook\u00a0Mastering the Art of French Cooking\u00a0and her television show\u00a0The French&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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