LITERATURE

My Life in France

by Julia Child

with Alex Prud'homme. Knopf. 2006. 336p. ISBN 9781400043460. $27.95; pap. ISBN 9780307277695. $16.

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Who knew that the jolly chef from public television had fought so hard to be admitted to cooking school while in post-World War II France? Concerns about cooking temperatures and writing Mastering the Art of French Cooking competed with worries about her husband's position in a diplomat corps obsessed with exposing secret communists. Child's lively memoir is a delightful American abroad story. (LJ 9/1/06)

Reviewed by Staff , Jan 24, 2013

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