Julia Child: A Life

Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)

With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child's unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in a World War II spy station to bewildered amateur cook and finally to the Cordon Bleu in Paris, the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially American, right down to her little-known recipe for classic tuna fish casserole, Shapiro's Julia Child personifies her own most famous lesson: that learning how to cook means learning how to live.

Author: Laura Shapiro
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/28/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.22h x 5.02w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780143116448
ISBN10: 0143116444
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Biography & Autobiography | Culinary

About the Author
Award-winning writer Laura Shapiro was at Newsweek for more than fifteen years. The author of Perfection Salad, she has written for many other publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Gourmet.