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My Life In France My Life In France, ISBN 9781400043460 and books by Julia Child on sale at thebookshelf.co.nz The book opens with Julia and Paul disembarking in Le Havre and partaking of their first meal en route to Paris. It was an impeccably cooked filet de sole meuniere, every detail of which Julia remembered and describes here with great relish. From this moment on, the book is a series of wonderful awakenings as the wide–eyed girl from Pasadena, who cant cook and doesnt speak a word of French, finds her raison detre in the pleasure of French food. Soon she is taking courses at the Cordon Bleu, meeting up with Simca (Simone Beck) and Louisette Bertholle, giving cooking classes and then working on a book together to teach Americans everything they need to know about the art of French cooking. When Paul is posted to Marseille, another chapter in the education of Julias palate occurs as she falls in love with the lusty flavours of the Midi. Back in the US Paul and Julia settle in Cambridge and are soom basking in the astonishing success of MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING and of Julia as The French Chef winning the heart of America. About the AuthorJulia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She was graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II in Ceylon and China, where she met Paul Child. After they married they lived in Paris, where she studied at the Cordon Bleu and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963, Bostons WGBH launched The French Chef television series, which made her a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Several public television shows.
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