Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
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 middle-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 directionless, gawky young woman who ran off halfway around the world to join a spy agency during World War II. She eventually settled in Paris, where she learned to cook. She was already fifty when The French Chef went on the air, at a time in our history when women were not making those leaps. Julia became the first educational TV star, virtually launching PBS as we know it today. Julia Child's story, however, is more than the tale of a talented woman and her sumptuous craft. It is also a saga of America's coming of age and growing sophistication, from the Depression Era to the turbulent sixties and the excesses of the eighties to the greening of the American kitchen. Julia had an effect on and was equally affected by the baby boom, the sexual revolution, and the start of the women's liberation movement. On the centenary of her birth, Julia finally gets the biography she richly deserves.--From publisher description
Print Book, English, 2013
1st Vintage books ed View all formats and editions
Vintage Books, New York, 2013
Biographies
viii, 557 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780307473417, 0307473414
811596569
Paradise
"On her way"
Julia of the almost spring
Only a butterfly
Keeper of the secrets
Paul
A diamond in the rough
Lucky to be alive
Devouring Paris whole
Lady sings the bleus
What she'd gotten herself into
A memorable feast
Frenchy French
This elephant of ours
Julia's turn to bloom
Taking everything in stride
A monstrously busy life
A law unto herself
The mad women of La Peetch
A household name
We are not all eternal
Looking forward
Enough
The end of an era
No one gets out alive
The beginning of the end
The raft
Includes index