Dearie : The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
ISBN: 9780307272225 | 0307272222
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Knopf
Pub. Date: 8/7/2012
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The definitive biography of Julia Child-with access to Julia's diaries and letters-written by the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed The Beatlesand timed to Julia's 100th birthday. From Pasadena to Cambridge to New York, Washington, D.C., India, Ceylon, Paris, Marseilles, Santa Barbara, and Maine, Bob Spitz re-creates an extraordinary life. He takes us beyond the image of Julia as the tall, eccentric woman with a funny voice who taught America how to cook, to establish her as a genuine rebel and beloved icon, a woman who redefin... MORE
| Prologue | p. 3 |
| Paradise | p. 21 |
| "On Her Way" | p. 37 |
| Julia of the Almost Spring | p. 63 |
| Only a Butterfly | p. 79 |
| Keeper of the Secrets | p. 97 |
| Paul | p. 113 |
| A Diamond in the Rough | p. 129 |
| Lucky to Be Alive | p. 145 |
| Devouring Paris Whole | p. 161 |
| Lady Sings the Bleus | p. 189 |
| What... MORE | p. 211 |
| A Memorable Feast | p. 231 |
| Franchy French | p. 247 |
| This Elephant of Ours | p. 265 |
| Julia's Turn to Bloom | p. 291 |
| Taking Everything in Stride | p. 307 |
| A Monstrously Busy Life | p. 325 |
| A Law unto Herself | p. 341 |
| The Mad Women of La Peetch | p. 359 |
| A Household Name | p. 379 |
| We Are Not All Eternal | p. 399 |
| Looking Forward | p. 419 |
| Enough | p. 441 |
| The End of an Era | p. 459 |
| No One Gets Out Alive | p. 479 |
| The Beginning of the End | p. 495 |
| The Raft | p. 511 |
| Sources and Acknowledgments | p. 531 |
| Author's Note | p. 535 |
| Index | p. 537 |
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