Dearie the remarkable life of Julia Child /

It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It is even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And ye...

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Main Author: Spitz, Bob.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2012.
Physical Description: viii, 557 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Paradise
  • "On her way"
  • Julia of the almost spring
  • Only a butterfly
  • Keeper of the secrets
  • Paul
  • A diamond in the rough
  • Lucky to be alive
  • Devouring Paris whole
  • Lady sings the bleus
  • What she'd gotten herself into
  • A memorable feast
  • Frenchy French
  • This elephant of ours
  • Julia's turn to bloom
  • Taking everything in stride
  • A monstrously busy life
  • A law unto herself
  • The mad women of La Peetch
  • A household name
  • We are not all eternal
  • Looking forward
  • Enough
  • The end of an era
  • No one gets out alive
  • The beginning of the end
  • The raft.