I'm reading Appetite for Life, a biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch (Anchor Books Edition, 1999.) It's completely fascinating.
She was a child of affluence who chose, after Smith College, an adventure with the CIA in the Far East during WW II and then discovered in France the excitement of the culinary arts.
She knew EVERYBODY who was prominent in the 40's, 50's, 60's and later decades.
Dean Acheson, Ernest Hemingway and Hadley, David K. E. Bruce, Sartre (she hung out at the Deux Magots all the time she lived in Paris,) John Kenneth Galbraith, Hollywood stars... you name them from the last half of the 20th Century, and she hobnobbed with all of them.
It's a great read about a vital and interesting person.
Mike
She was a child of affluence who chose, after Smith College, an adventure with the CIA in the Far East during WW II and then discovered in France the excitement of the culinary arts.
She knew EVERYBODY who was prominent in the 40's, 50's, 60's and later decades.
Dean Acheson, Ernest Hemingway and Hadley, David K. E. Bruce, Sartre (she hung out at the Deux Magots all the time she lived in Paris,) John Kenneth Galbraith, Hollywood stars... you name them from the last half of the 20th Century, and she hobnobbed with all of them.
It's a great read about a vital and interesting person.
Mike
travelling gourmand
