Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

632 Pages·1999·4.6 MB·English

by  Noel Riley Fitch

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For my sisters
Lynn and Gail
and
for my husband
Albert Sonnenfeld
with whom I share the joys of the table
“I too am an Epicurean.”
THOMAS JEFFERSON
C
ONTENTS
Western Pioneers and Blue Blood
1 Beginnings
2 A Place in the Sun
3 Education of an Extrovert
4 Smith College: Ivy Walls and Jelly Donuts
5 Career Search
Spying and Romance
6 India Intrigue
7 To China with Love
8 Eastward Ho
9 Flavors of Marriage
An American in Paris
(Marseilles, Bonn, and Oslo)
10 À Paris
11 Cordon Bleu
12 Marseilles: Fishing for Reds
13 A Little Town in Germany
14 Back Home (and Cooking) on the Range
15 “I Am at Heart a Viking”
Our Lady of the Ladle
16 Launching the Book
17 Let Them Eat Quiche: The French Chef
18 Provençal Winters
19 The Media Are the Message
20 Celebrity and Solitude
Empress of Cuissine
21 Riding the Second Wave
22 A Time of Loss
23 The Company She Keeps
24 Pacific Overtures
25 Seasoned with Love
26 Notre Dame de la Cuisine
27 Do Not Go Gentle
Appendices
Family Trees
Television Series
Acknowledgments and Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Photographs