My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
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Book Reviews of My Life in France
Book Review: real adventures and down to earth
Summary: 5 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Julia Child through "My Life in France". I love cooking and reading recipe books (for fun)- and can really relate to Julia's process of learning to cook and perfecting each dish. Being an avid traveller and someone who currently lives in a foreign country, I felt a connection with Julia and her husband. Their adventures abroad (learning a new language, making local friends, fitting into a foreign culture) were wonderfully familiar. My husband had gotten me as a present the book "Julie and Julia" (now a motion picture) but I found the main character Julie very boring -there wasn't enough of Julia Child in that book.Book Review: Great Book - Opened my Eyes to Another Side of Julia
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved the book. I've read it twice now and liked it even better the second time. This give a great insight to how and why she started cooking. It paints a great picture of Paris during the late 40's. Her relationship with her husband was interesting and sweet which presented a different side to her. It shows a vulnerability that I wasn't aware of. Great pictures add a lot to the book. It made me want to know more about her life and buy a couple of her cookbooks Highly recommend it. My Life in FranceBook Review: Flavor of France
Summary: 5 Stars
Love food? Enjoy Paris? Read Julia Child's lovely memoir compiled by her nephew from letters sent by Julia to her family during years of residence in France when she learned to cook and started producing the very first culinary instruction show on television back in the 1960's. All do-it-yourself and creative innovation, Julia and Paul, her spouse and food stylist, publicity agent and bottle washer, brought fine food to a vast American audience that didn't know much about international cuisine. Thank you Julia!Book Review: My Life in France
Summary: 5 Stars
This book about Julia's life in France is a wonderful, eye-opening and down-to-earth "expose'" right from the author's musings - she paints a wonderful picture
of her life, her surroundings, her friends, and her loves: cooking, her husband, and the city of Paris. This revelation of who she was (educated, insatiably curious about French cuisine, funny, liberal, well-liked,and extremely sociable) made me wish I had become a fan long ago. Now I'm cooking French as I've wanted to
for years!
Book Review: Well written and an amazing insight into a very interesting person
Summary: 5 Stars
I admit that as an Australian I knew very little about Julia Child. The only information I knew about her was that she was a television cook and was a revered personality in American television. After reading this book about the start of her marriage and travelling through France with her husband and learning about the language, food and people of her adopted country is amazing. I thoroughly recommend this book, it is very well written and an interesting insight into a fascinating person.