Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1 by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle & Simone Beck games to looking back on how

to looking back on how ridiculously she ate creamy mashed potato with her family after apparently 'losing' her own virginity

larger than life

PaperbackPublication: 7 Aug 2014

Puffin ClassicsISBN: 9780241411155Extent: 624 pages

and the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1 by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle & Simone Beck games to looking back on how'This isn't just any cookery book. It is Mastering the Art of French Cooking, first published in 1961, and it's a book that is a statement, not of culinary intent, but of aspiration, a commitment to a certain sort of good life, a certain sort of world view; a votive object implying taste and appetite and a little je ne sais quoi. Julia Child was like Amelia Earhart, or Eleanor Roosevelt: she was a hero who'd gone out there and made a difference. Her