My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of My Life in France
Book Review: A wonderful read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful book. Julia Child is one of the most positive, passionate and witty personalities of our time. I sure miss her. Especially around the holidays when I make her cranberry relish. This book is written in a way that makes her seem very present. Her story is very humorous and inspiring.Book Review: Absolutely Delicious
Summary: 5 Stars
Over the years, I watched Julia Child on television every chance I could, from the earliest days when she would whirl heavy pots and pans and kitchen machetes around as other women might have twirled a baton, to the later years when she was bent and obliged to leave the hefting to others but still kept her eagle eye on every step of the cooking process. I was a C- cook, and the only recipes of Julia's I ever used were a few omelette guidelines; I watched her because she was so delightful, witty, and impassioned.
Her Book, My Life in France, brims over with that glorious passion. Julia's voice, her joie de vivre, her vigor, and her impatience with the lazy and the boring bubble on every page. If "the god is in the details," then this book is heavenly, for it has a richness of details carefully selected not only from Child's memory, but from hundreds of pages of notebooks, letters, and cooking records of all sorts. In these my mature years, I have been reading mostly biographies and autobiographies; this volume of Julia Child's years in France is and will remain a favorite because of its honesty, sense of fun, and unflagging passion. It's delicious!
Book Review: An Enthralling Read
Summary: 5 Stars
Alex Prud'homme joined his great-aunt Julia Child to create this perfect memoir, based largely on family correspondence and Prud'homme's interviews with Child in the last year of her life. My Life in France works on a remarkable number of levels to create a complex, satisfying and enthralling read. Among other things, My Life in France is:
--A vividly-rendered travelogue that will transport you to the streets of Paris, the Marseille waterfront and the hills of Provence.
--A tour de force on the cuisine bourgeoise that Julia Child loved and popularized in the United States.
--The love story of Paul and Julia Child or, as they frequently referred to themselves, "PJ" or "Pulia".
--A publishing saga of the herculean efforts associated with the writing and publishing of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a process that took approximately a decade for volume one and eight years for volume two.
--An autobiography of Julia Child, revealed here as ebullient, dedicated, and almost ruthlessly single-minded in her mission to bring authentic French cookery to the American masses.
Any one of these subjects would be worthy of a memoir. To find them all explored cogently and completely in a single, comparatively slender, beautifully written volume is a marvel. Congratulations to Mr. Prud'homme for shepherding this book to completion, and a hearty 'Bon Appetit' to the memory of Julia Child, a woman who lived life well.
Book Review: And what a life it was...
Summary: 5 Stars
After watching the movie "Julia and Julie" I just became so interested in Julia Childs' life. On the screen it would apprea that the really lived a fantasitc life and reading this book, you know she did. It was a well rounded story and so interesting. I just really liked it and am going to do some research to find more books like this.Book Review: Another look at Julia
Summary: 5 Stars
A terrific book, intelligently written. It shares pieces of her life not known before but, also shares some of her wonderful memories of food she has eaten,prepared and thought about all of her long life,, Especially liked her descriptions of mealtime 'at home' as a child and also as a budding adult in Paris