Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

by the same author

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation:
A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties

Hemingway in Paris

Literary Cafés of Paris

Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin

For my sisters
Lynn and Gail
and
for my husband
Albert Sonnenfeld
with whom I share the joys of the table

“I too am an Epicurean.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON

C
ONTENTS

Western Pioneers and Blue Blood

 1   
   
Beginnings

 2   
   
A Place in the Sun

 3   
   
Education of an Extrovert

 4   
   
Smith College: Ivy Walls and Jelly Donuts

 5   
   
Career Search

Spying and Romance

 6   
   
India Intrigue

 7   
   
To China with Love

 8   
   
Eastward Ho

 9   
   
Flavors of Marriage

An American in Paris
(Marseilles, Bonn, and Oslo)
             

10   
   
À Paris

11   
   
Cordon Bleu

12   
   
Marseilles: Fishing for Reds

13   
   
A Little Town in Germany

14   
   
Back Home (and Cooking) on the Range