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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful book, dealing with the letters between Julia Child and Avis DeVoto, following a chance reference in Avis's husband's column to knives. They build up a real friendship through many long letters, which continued all their lives, although the book centres around the years of writing "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol 1". Fortunately for us, the friendship deepened when they actually met! However, the letters contain much, much more than "just" queries about the book, publishers etc. It is a potted history of the politics of the US during the McCarthy era and also of the European scene, where Julia and her husband Paul, were based during this period. They are both widely read women, in touch with movers and shakers and linked in to journalists and politicians on both continents.
This is an important book to read if you love Julia Child's cooking and "Julie and Julia" and are interested in the social context in which "Mastering" was developed and first appeared, with its details about the relationship between the three authors of Vol 1 as well as the politics of publishing. Definitely a book for those who wish to set Julia's long cooking life in its social and political beginnings.
This is an important book to read if you love Julia Child's cooking and "Julie and Julia" and are interested in the social context in which "Mastering" was developed and first appeared, with its details about the relationship between the three authors of Vol 1 as well as the politics of publishing. Definitely a book for those who wish to set Julia's long cooking life in its social and political beginnings.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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If you happen to be either a fan of books of letters-or indeed (probably why you're considering this item) of Julia Child, you must without question have this book! A wonderful insight into the making of her timeless cookbooks and a beautiful friendship.
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As Always Julia: The letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food Friendship and the making of a Masterpiece
10 April 2011
Format:Hardcover
[AS ALWAYS, JULIA]As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece BY Reardon, Joan(Author){Hardcover}Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)(publisher)
As part of our daughter's birthday gifts - requested this and loves it already. Just gone to France on holiday and book has also gone on holiday!!
Very happy with the quality of the book - paper, layout etc. which sometimes missing nowadays.
As part of our daughter's birthday gifts - requested this and loves it already. Just gone to France on holiday and book has also gone on holiday!!
Very happy with the quality of the book - paper, layout etc. which sometimes missing nowadays.
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