**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Julia's story of her transformative years in
France in her own words is "captivating ... her marvelously
distinctive voice is present on every page." (San Francisco
Chronicle).
**
Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to
American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking
and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a
master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her
husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and
knew nothing about the country itself.
But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and
taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her
newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia's unforgettable
story--struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from
publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly
fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe--unfolds
with the spirit so key to Julia's success as a chef and a writer,
brilliantly capturing one of America's most endearing personalities.