My Life in France

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"Delightful and ebulliently written. . . . Her joy just about jumps off the book's pages." - The Christian Science Monitor s JULIJA C HJ U L D singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef] but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in Francé in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work with the U.S. Information Service, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passión for cooking and teaching. Julia's unforgettable story-struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year marriage that took them across the globe - unfolds with the spirit so key to... Tovább

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"Delightful and ebulliently written. . . . Her joy just about jumps off the book's pages." - The Christian Science Monitor s JULIJA C HJ U L D singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef] but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in Francé in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work with the U.S. Information Service, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passión for cooking and teaching. Julia's unforgettable story-struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year marriage that took them across the globe - unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years. "Lively, infectious. . . . Her elegant but unfussy prose pulls the reader into her stories." -Chicago Sun-Times 0 "Captivating. . . . Her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page." -San Francisco Chronicle Vissza