Julia child biography dearie

This is truly the most complete story of this extraordinary woman who brought knowledge of food preparation through television and gave the public actual true.
A memoir about a very young English girl who goes off with her besotted and narcissistic parents and her brother on a years-long sailing journey supposedly.
At its heart, Dearie is a story about a woman's search for her own unique expression.

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Julia Child Revisited:

Just finished reading Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child, written by author and biographer extraordinaire Bob Spitz.
Let me start with my – very few – gripes, then we’ll move on to the good stuff.

I did say Ouf! when I was done, not because I didn’t love it. I found the book’s size and heft (529 pages, hardcover) bordering on the presumptuous. Last time I devoted the time to read a book this size was for FDR, JFK, Anna Karenina, Rockefeller and other titans. Was Julia Child a giant? Duh! And in every imaginable sense of the word. But clearly in this case, the editor was out to lunch when the book was allowed to go to press without shaving 200 pages right off the top. Please guys, give us a break! 300 pages, 350 pages tops, would have done the job beautifully.

Likewise, I am afraid the editor wasn’t looking when he let fall between the cracks some inconsistencies (nothing alarming), the most egregious of which was this line (page 217): It was a boisterous affair. more than a hundred people cr

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DEARIE: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

The stunning story of how Julia Child transformed herself into the cult figure who touched off a food revolution that has gripped the country for more than fifty years. A genuine rebel who took the pretensions that embellished French cuisine and fricasseed them to a fare-thee-well, paving the way for a new era of American food—not to mention blazing a new trail in television—Child redefined herself in middle age, fought for women’s rights, and forever altered how we think about what we eat.

A Time, Washington Post, and NPR Best Book of the Year

PRAISE & REVIEWS

“By far the most substantial new book on Child. . . . A lively, affectionately detailed portrait.”
—The Wall Street Journal  

“An unabashed celebration of the mistress of haute cuisine.”
—San Francisco Chronicle  

“A rollicking biography that captures the vision, pluck and contagious exuberance that were the essence of Julia Child.”
—People Magazine

“A much-appreciated, well timed gift to us all. . . . Julia has never been more alive in the hearts and mi

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Review and Give Away – Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

Review – Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

From interminably hungry young girl and “terror at the stove” to a “master” in the art of French cooking (but still interminably hungry!), “Dearie” chronicles the aptly titled “Remarkable Life of Julia Child” from high spirited child, to aimless social butterfly, and into the icon she has become. Bob Spitz provides an exhaustive look into the life of Julia Child, detailing her personal struggles and successes with family, work, love and ultimately finding her purpose.

Dearie begins with an account of Julia’s first television appearance on WGBH’s People Are Reading, an intensely dry educational program, providing the perfect juxtaposition for Julia’s eccentric cooking antics to really stand out (not that she needed the help!). The prologue helps draw the reader in for what promises to be a book filled with plenty of Julia’s charm and hilarious anecdotes. This initial episode m