Julia Child
Alex Joins Chef Barbara Lynch at the Full Plate Lunch Series
On Tuesday, October 18th, we’re thrilled to welcome author and Julia Child’s great-nephew, Alex Prud’homme to Menton to celebrate the release of his latest book, The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act. True to Full Plate Form, we will gather, eat, and learn over a memorable lunch with an extraordinary guest speaker who…
Read MoreBon Appétit, America: How the French Chef captured the zeitgeist.
In 2006, Julia Child’s memoir My Life in France was a rousing bestseller. The story of how a “6-foot-2-inch, 36-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian” (her words) transformed herself and America’s appetites was a sheer delight. But it nearly didn’t happen. For years she had talked about writing a memoir of her postwar years in…
Read MoreKirkus Reviews: THE FRENCH CHEF IN AMERICA Julia Child’s Second Act
Prud’homme (Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2013, etc.) explores the life of his great aunt, Julia Child (1912-2004), America’s first celebrity chef and an enduring cultural icon. Co-author of her autobiography, My Life in France, the author demonstrates how Child, a cultural mediator between France and America in the first act of her career,…
Read MoreCrazy eggplant dip, and other delectable Julia Child recipes, courtesy of the NYT
The NYT Food section followed up on Julia Moskin’s piece (see previous post) with a paean to JC’s down home French cooking, including a zany — and very un-French — eggplant appetizer. Check it out, and let me know how yours tasted. Bon appetit! https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/dining/recipes-from-julia-julia.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-4&action=click&contentCollection=Food®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
Read MoreLa Pitchoune Lives! The NYT’s Julia Moskin chez Julia in Provence
Intrepid food reporter Julia Mosking rented La Pitchoune, Julia and Paul Child’s Provencal perch, for a week of inspired shopping, cooking, and eating. She writes: “La Pitchoune is in the hills that rise above the Côte d’Azur, 10 miles north of Cannes, though it feels far from the yachts, crowds and burkini battles of the…
Read MoreMerci, “Bon Appetit!”
“Bon Appetit” magazine names FCiF one of 8 New Nonfiction Books to Read this Fall — Merci! (interesting factoid: the mag was title before it became Julia Child’s catch-phrase) https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/nonfiction-food-books-fall-2016
Read MoreTFCiA: one of Newsday’s “12 Best Books of the Fall”
Bon Appetit! Newsday enjoyed The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act — and maybe you will, too! https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/12-best-new-books-to-read-this-fall-1.12239501
Read MoreKirkus Review of “The French Chef in America”
My latest book, The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act,” will be in stores Oct 5 (and can be preordered today). The early reviews are starting to roll in, and I hope Julia would be pleased. Here’s the first, from Kirkus Reviews: “Along with a dollop of culinary arcana, Prud’homme folds some surprises…
Read MoreIn Julia Child’s Provençal Kitchen
By JULIA MOSKIN SEPT. 20, 2016 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…
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