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…

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Bon 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…

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Kirkus 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,…

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Crazy 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&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

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La 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…

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Merci, “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

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Kirkus 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…

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In 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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