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First Published:
Apr 2006, 336 pages
Paperback:
Oct 2007, 368 pages
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By the time I was old
enough to be interested in cooking
programs, Julia Child was in her
sixties, so my image of her was always
of an elderly lady with a warbling,
raspy voice presiding over cooking
programs with an authority that I
never understood. Of course, I
was familiar with her famous cook book
but I couldn't fathom what the fuss was
about, and why people so adored her.
Now I understand! Reading the memoir of
this feisty "rather loud and unserious"
six-foot-two Californian is a huge
pleasure, and the photographs of France
and the French, mostly taken by her
husband, are exceptional. As always, it
is so easy to assume that success comes
to famous people easily, but this
impression is quickly corrected when
reading of the extraordinary efforts she
went through for nine years, before
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
was eventually published in 1961 when
she was about 49 years old.
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October 2007 edition.
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