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Article: Biography of Julia Child a delicious tale
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 5, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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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