Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child / Bob Spitz

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Paradise "On Her Way" Julia of the Almost Spring Only a Butterfly Keeper of the Secrets Paul A Diamond in the Rough Lucky to Be Alive Devouring Paris Whole Lady Sings the Bleus What She'd Gotten Herself Into A Memorable Feast Frenchy French This Elephant of Ours Julia's Turn to Bloom Taking Everything in Stride A Monstrously Busy Life A Law Unto Herself The Mad Women of La Peetch A Household Name We Are Not All Eternal Looking Forward Enough The End of An Era No One Gets Out Alive The Beginning of the End The Raft

It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It is even rarer when that someone is a middl0 - aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. The warble voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. In this biography, the Julia we know and love comes to life. In it the author provides a portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential Americans of our time, a woman known to all, yet known by only a few.