Article: Biography of Julia Child a delicious tale

Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child. By Noel Riley Fitch. Doubleday. 500 pages. $24.95.

While Julia Child's interest in how things tasted didn't really mature until she hit her 30s and moved to France, she was curious about how things tasted earlier in life. As a girl, she would steal her father's cigars, climb an oak tree near the family home in Pasadena, Calif., and smoke them out of sight.

That anecdote is one of hundreds woven into the detailed tapestry of a new biography of Child, a woman biographer Noel Riley Fitch playfully refers to as "Notre Dame de La Cuisine." Most of us know something about Child, either from watching one of her television series on cooking or ...

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