Julia Child
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers: "What a cookbook should be: packed with sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings. Some of the instructions look daunting, but as Child herself says in the introduction, 'If you can read, you can cook.'" —Entertainment Weekly
“I only wish that I had written it myself.” —James Beard
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“I only wish that I had written it myself.” —James Beard
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"A collection of Julia Child's quotations"--
Julia Child taught America how to cook-- and how to eat. She loved to quip, and people loved to quote her. This volume compiles some of Julia's most memorable lines on the pleasures of eat, drinking, life, love, travel, France, and so much more. -- adapted from back cover and "A Note on the Quotes" opposite verso.
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Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....