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Chef Julia Child’s biographer recalls his great aunt and uncle
Back in the halcyon days of August, the esteemed Ellsworth American was kind enough to send reporter Kate Cough to my reading at the Northeast Harbor, Maine, Library. Her report begins like this … NORTHEAST HARBOR —When Julia Child got her first microwave oven “it was this magical space-age thing from NASA,” says her grandnephew Alex…
Read MoreIt’s December and “The French Chef in America” would make a tasty holiday gift — plus, I have bookplates to sign!
From Julia Child’s grandnephew, the enchanting story of her years as a TV personality and beloved cookbook author. “The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act” is available now: Amazon: https://bit.ly/2dynY3P Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/2dY6GLP iBooks: https://bit.ly/2d0e3QL IndieBound: https://bit.ly/2cXzmqI
Read MoreHappy 104th birthday to Julia Child, accidental revolutionary
I just came across this beautiful Jesse Kornbluth tribute to Julia and MY LIFE IN FRANCE from August, which would have marked her 104th birthday. Merci, Head Butler … now, what do you think of THE FRENCH CHEF IN AMERICA? Julia Child: My Life in France By JESSE KORNBLUTH Published: Aug 31, 2016 Category: Food and Wine…
Read MoreJulia Child’s life in America
A follow-up from Alex Prud’homme on his aunt Julia Child, the original celebrity chef Joanne Latimer THE FRENCH CHEF IN AMERICA By Alex Prud’homme Before there was the Food Network, there was Julia Child. She wasn’t the first celebrity chef to appear on U.S. television—that honour went to her friend James Beard in 1946—but she…
Read MoreGrandnephew has the book on Julia Child
Julia Child and her husband Paul gaze at each other on the cover of her autobiography My Life in France. They’re young. They’ve pinned red paper hearts over their real hearts, signalling a love for the ages When the book, co-written with Julia Child’s grandnephew Alex Prud’homme, was published in 2006 (after Child died), Prud’homme’s…
Read More[Book Review] Alex Prud’homme’s The French Chef in America profiles the revolutionary Julia Child’s second act
The French Chef in America, Alex Prud’homme’s biography of Julia Child – post-Mastering the Art of French Cooking – wastes no time in reminding us of Child’s charm. The book opens in 1967 when Child filmed a behind-the-scenes look at the White House kitchen. “Welcome to Washington,” Child said to the camera, before delivering her…
Read MoreMixing It Up with Julia Child
The author’s long and complex relationship with the culinary icon MIMI SHERATON As soon as I received a review copy of The French Chef in America, Alex Prud’homme’s new intricately and intriguingly detailed biography of his delicious, good-naturedly opinionated great-aunt, Julia Child, I went right to the index in hopes of finding my name. That…
Read MoreRecipes from Julia & Julia
Good morning. Our Julia Moskin is back after hard duty in France, where she spent a few days living in Julia Child’s old house in Provence, shopping in the same stores Child frequented and cooking in her kitchen. She wrote up the experience for The Times today, a beautiful story that manages at once to…
Read MoreIn Julia Child’s Provençal Kitchen
PLASCASSIER, France — When I hefted the rolling pin in my hand, I finally felt it: a thread of energy, a thrill of recognition. I knew I was standing in Julia Child’s kitchen, and I was about to put it to work. In August, having rented it from the current owners through Airbnb, I spent…
Read MoreInterview: Julia Child’s great-nephew Alex Prud’homme on his new book, ‘The French Chef in America’
Alex Prud’homme, a journalist and the great-nephew of Julia Child, co-wrote his great-aunt’s 2007 memoir, My Life in France. Now, Prud’homme has written The French Chef in America, which is described as the story of Child’s “second act.” The French Chef in America tells the story of her life after the publication of her classic…
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