My Life in France
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Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself.
But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. JuliaтАЩs unforgettable storyтАФstruggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globeтАФunfolds with the spirit so key to JuliaтАЩs success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of AmericaтАЩs most endearing personalities.
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Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II; afterward she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu, and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of┬аMastering the Art of French Cooking┬а(1961). In 1963, BostonтАЩs WGBH launched┬аThe French Chef┬аtelevision series, which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Several public television shows and numerous cookbooks followed. She died in 2004.
Alex Prud'homme┬аis Julia Child's great-nephew and the coauthor of her autobiography,┬аMy Life in France,┬аwhich was adapted into the movie┬аJulie & Julia. He is also the author of┬аThe Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know,┬аand┬аThe Cell Game,┬аand he is the coauthor (with Michael Cherkasky) of┬аForewarned: Why the Government Is Failing to Protect Us--and What We Must Do to Protect Ourselves. Prud'homme's journalism has appeared in┬аThe New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time,┬аand┬аPeople.
