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With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Julia Child: Add a description of this character.
- Avis W. DeVoto
- Paul Child
- Bernard DeVoto
- Mark DeVoto
- Dorothy de Santillana
- Ives Washburn
- Bill Koshland
- Charlie
- Lovell Thompson
- Harper
- Benny
- Adlai Stevenson
- Eisenhower
- Anne Barrett
- Paul Sheeline
- Pat Knopf
- Robert A. Taft
- Judith Jones
- Jean Fischbacher
- Paul Brooks
- Mary
- Dione Lucas
- Adlai
- Foster Furcolo
- Sarton
- Helmut Ripperger
- Simone Beck
- Greg
- J. Jones
- Roy Cohn
- Elmer Davis
- Freddie Child
- A. Maass
- Ames Stevens
- Mr. Welch
- May Sarton
- Mattie
- Dorothy C. Fisher
- Laura Wood Roper
- Stewart Alsop
- Allie Harkness
- Rachel Carson
- Sen. Douglas
- Cora Du Bois
- Noel Coward
- Ginnie Fairbank
- Charlotte Turgeon
- Douglas McKay
- Giorgio de S.
- Mrs. Beeton
- John L. Moore
- Joseph McCarthy
- Anne Doyle
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Henry Adams
- Tom Mahoney
- Wallace Stegner
- Stanley Hillyer
- Narcisse Chamberlain
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Louie Lyons
- Richard L. Neuberger
- Richard Nixon
- Mildred O. Knopf
- Marguerite Mason
- Leonard Drohan
- William Humphrey
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Henry
- Angus Cameron
- Joseph Donon
- Henry R. Luce
- Mabel Souvaine
- Max Bugnard
- Henry Laughlin
- Archie
- Sam Lawrence
- June Platt
- Mapie
- Noble Cathcart
- Sidney Jacobs
- Herblock
- Lewis
- Owen Lattimore
- Jane Nickerson
- Erica Child
- Sumner Putnam
- Mrs. Joy
- Nancy Balfour
- Elizabeth Kennedy
- Dean Acheson
- Proust
- Mae
- William O. Douglas
- Mark Twain
- Leverett Saltonstall
- Alistair Cooke
- William F. Knowland
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Jean Guislain
- Robert McCormick
- John Carter Vincent
- Alfred Kinsey
- William Ezra Jenner
- Martha Kennedy
- Joseph P. Kennedy
- Susan Strasberg
- Mao Zedong
- Louisette Bertholle
- Charlie Curtis
- Mr. S. S. Pierce
- Roy Dickson
- Henry Dart Reck
- Sargent
- Anne
- José Wilson
- Dean Clark
- Escoffier
- Hector Prud
- Susie
- Patrick J. Hurley
- Wayne Morse
- Gerald L. K. Smith
- Blanche Knopf
- Mollie Brazier
- Hélène Baltrusaitis
- Mrs. Conant
- Mary Moore Molony
- Simone B. Prunier
- John Paton Davies Jr.
- Curnonsky
- Elliott Perkins
- Eleanor Edmonds
- Walter Lippmann
- Helen Corbitt
- Mr. Furcolo
- Helen Cummings Cook
- Charles W. Morton
- Herbert Weinstock
- Bill Raney
- Joan Reardon
- Theresa Keating
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Alben W. Barkley
- Jack Fischer
- Harry S. Truman
- David Schine
- Clay Cochran
- Gordon
- Robert T. Stevens
- Francis Biddle
- Walter Edmonds
- Alma Routsong Brodie
- Edwin C. Johnson
- Mère Michel
- Barbara Jatkola
- Helen Rochlin
- Frederick L. Allen
- John F. Kennedy
- Donald T. Trautman
- Eleanor Hess
- Sam Morisson
- Thomas Dewey
- Harold Ross
- Eleanor Murdock
- James Reston
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
- James Beard
- Dr. Murphy
- Herb Scheinberg
- Edith Kennedy
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Ralph Zwicker
- Donald Moffat
- Clementine Paddleford
- V. Katz
- Robert Frost
- Charlie McLaughlin
- Moore Molony
- Charlie Morton
- John Kenneth
- Charles C. McLaughlin
- C. Douglas Dillon
- Ansel Adams
- Arthur Krock
Setting & Locations edit
- Paris
- France
- New York City
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Washington, D.C.
- Germany
- Boston
- Oslo
- New England
- United States
- California
- Harvard
- Massachusetts
- London
- Berlin
- Norway
- China
- Europe
- Plittersdorf
- Maine
- San Francisco
- Philadelphia
- White House
- Rome
- Pittsfield
- Provence
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pasadena
- Vermont
- Annisquam
- Madeira
- Italy
- Bonn
- Korea
- Illinois
- Chicago
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
First Sentence edit
Almost three and a half years after arriving in Paris with her husband, Paul, Julia Child read an article in a 1951 issue of Harper's written by the historian and prolific journalist Bernard DeVoto.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Joan Reardon (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: United States
Publication Date: December 2010
ISBN: 9780547417714
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: United States
Publication Date: December 2010
ISBN: 9780547417714
Page Count: 432
Awards edit
- The IACP Cookbook Award (2011: Literary Food Writing)
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 641.5092
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