| The book opens in 1948 with a newly-married Julia Child seeing Le Havre, France for the first time. Julia's voice is clear and the reader feels the enthusiam and uncertainty she as she contemplates the life ahead of her.
Sensory details of her first years in Paris fill the pages. Relying on detailed letters her husband Paul sent to his twin brother, Charlie, back in the States, Julia shares anecdotes of food and wine, her new marriage, life in Paris and life at the Cordon Bleu. The books moves through Julia's years at the Cordon Bleu, L'Ecole des Gormettes, the cooking school she founded with Simone Beck Fischbacher and Louisette Bertholle in 1952, and their subsequent collaboration on French Home Cooking, finally published as Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Later chapters chronicle Julia's PBS cooking show, The French Chef. | ||
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Plot & Themes job/profession: Job/profession/poverty story Yes Food Yes Period of greatest activity? - 1950+ Subject of Biography Gender - Female Profession/status: Ethnicity - White Nationality - American Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 () Europe Yes City? Yes Century: - 1930's-1950's Writing Style Book makes you feel? - very happy - like laughing Pictures/Illustrations? - A lot 11-15 B&W How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 26-50% of book |
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