Description: We Take Pride in our Packaging! JULIA CHILD'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH FRENCH COOKING IN THIS ENGAGING MEMOIR - AN IMMEDIATE BESTSELLER - Julia Child, American chef, author of pioneering cookbooks, and television personality,tells how she fell in love with French cuisine before introducing it to America. In France, she said, she found her true purpose and life's calling. Julia wrote this fascinating an intimate account with her grandnephew Alex Prud'homme, himself an accomplished author.Soon after arriving at Le Havre with her husband Paul (en route to a US Government job), the couple had an exquisite French meal that added to an awakening that was to change her life - and ultimately the culinary tastes of countless Americans. With her cookbooks on French cooking and her down-to-earth television persona she became a fixture of the American culture. THIS MEMOIR IS IN FINE CONDITION with clean, crisp and unmarked pages, a firm and square hardcover, and an intact dust-jacket. The book was first published in April, 2006, and by August that year it had already undergone its eighth printing - of which this edition is one. It is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a general index is provided. Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 1-4000-4346-8 Nonfiction: Biography and Cooking + All books sold by Mackie Books are packaged in bubble wrap. This book will be shipped in a cardboard box. + Click here to see other listings by Mackie Books on eBay, including American and international classics. + We ship internationally through eBay's Global Shipping Program. + All the illustrations we post with our eBay listing are from the books in our inventory and are not stock pictures. + We like to get books to you in the condition described above. This means careful packaging - our specialty. + We use recycled material for packaging whenever possible! + Take care. Do the boring and unimportant stuff when you can. Read a book today.
Price: 19.95 USD
Location: Sausalito, California
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Book Title: My Life in France
Book Series: Historical
Original Language: English
Item Length: 6.5 in
Vintage: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 9.5 in
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Topic: Nostalgic Memoir of a Famous Chef
Item Width: 1.25 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Knopf
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Eighth Printing
Publication Year: 2006
Type: Memoir
Era: 1950s
Illustrator: Photography
Author: Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Cookbooks, History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 1 lb 9 oz
Number of Pages: 317
