My Life in France

图书标准信息

• 作者 Julia Child 著
• 出版社 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• 出版时间 2007-10
• ISBN 9780307277695
• 定价 119.50元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 368页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

JuliaChildsinglehandedlycreatedanewapproachtoAmericancuisinewithhercookbookMasteringtheArtofFrenchCookingandhertelevisionshowTheFrenchChef,butassherevealsinthisbestsellingmemoir,shewasnotalwaysamasterchef.Indeed,whenshefirstarrivedinFrancein1948withherhusband,Paul,whowastoworkfortheUSIS,shespokenoFrenchandknewnothingaboutthecountryitself.ButasshedoveintoFrenchculture,buyingfoodatlocalmarketsandtakingclassesattheCordonBleu,herlifechangedforeverwithhernewfoundpassionforcookingandteaching.Julia’sunforgettablestory–struggleswiththeheadoftheCordonBleu,rejectionsfrompublisherstowhomshesenthernow-famouscookbook,awonderful,nearlyfifty-yearlongmarriagethattookthemacrosstheglobe–unfoldswiththespiritsokeytohersuccessasachefandawriter,brilliantlycapturingoneofthemostendearingAmericanpersonalitiesofthelastfiftyyears.

【作者简介】

JuliaChildwasborninPasadena,California.ShegraduatedfromSmithCollegeandworkedfortheOSSduringWWII;afterwardsshelivedinParis,studiedattheCordonBleu,andtaughtcookingwithSimoneBeckandLouisetteBartholle,withwhomshewrotethefirstvolumeofMasteringtheArtofFrenchCooking(1961).In1963Boston'sWGBHlaunched"TheFrenchChef"televisionseries,whichmadeJuliaChildanationalcelebrity,earningherthePeabodyAwardin1965andanEmmyin1966;subsequentpublictelevisionshowswere"JuliaChild&Company"(1978),"JuliaChild&MoreCompany"(1980)--bothofwhichwereaccompaniedbycookbooks--and"DinneratJulia's"(1983),followedby"CookingwithMasterChefs"(1993),"InJulia'sKitchenwithMasterChefs"(1995),andhercollaborationwithJacquesPépin,"JuliaandJacquesCookingatHome"(1999).The40thanniversaryeditionofMasteringtheArtofFrenchCooking,Volume1waspublishedin2001.AlexPrud'hommeisJulia'sgrandnephew.Afreelancewriter,hisjournalismhasappearedinTheNewYorkTimes,TheNewYorker,VanityFair,Time,andPeople.HeistheauthorofTheCellGameandtheco-author(withMichaelCherkasky)ofForewarned.HelivesinBrooklyn,NewYork.