Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child

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Label

Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child

Title remainder

the remarkable life of Julia Child

Statement of responsibility

Bob Spitz

Creator

• Spitz, Bob

Subject

• Child, Julia
• Cooking, French
• Cooks -- France -- Biography
• Cooks -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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 middl0--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 yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. The warble voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. Julia Child was a gawky young woman who joined a spy agency during World War II. She eventually settled in Paris, where she learned to cook and collaborated on the writing of what would become Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a book that changed the food culture of America. Julia became the first educational TV star, her marriage to Paul Child formed a decades long love story. A fearless, ambitious, supremely confident woman, Julia took on all the pretensions that embellished Tony French cuisine and fricasseed them to a fare-thee-well, paving the way for everything that has happened since in American cooking, from TV dinners and Big Macs to sea urchin foam and the Food Channel

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult