Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child (87 page)

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vis DeVoto and Julia Child at Charnel House Court, Rouen, France, May 1956.
(PAUL CHILD)

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ulia and James Beard in the back garden of Beard’s house at 119 West Tenth Street, Greenwich Village, May 21, 1964. Julia periodically flew down from Boston to teach in his cooking school.
(PAUL CHILD)

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uth Lockwood, her second WGBH producer, ties Julia’s apron before the taping of
The French Chef
, which ran in black and white from 1963 to 1966, in color from 1970 to 1973.
(PAUL CHILD)

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he French Chef in front of the camera at WGBH for a filming, “Sweetbreads and Brains,” show #123, December 9, 1965. She wears the insignia designed by Paul for L’Ecole des Trois Gourmandes.
(PAUL CHILD)

“YOU MAY BE AN ESCARGOT TO JULIA CHILD. BUT YOU’RE JUST A SNAIL TO ME!”

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he old house at Bramafam in Provence. Julia is working at Simca’s outdoor table about 1960, before her own house was built beyond the trees behind her.

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ulia’s kitchen in the Childs’ Cambridge home, 1969. The table was bought in Oslo, the mortar and pestle on the left in Paris, the six-burner Garland gas range on the right in Washington, DC. The house was built for the eminent philosopher Josiah Royce in 1889, the counters raised when the Childs moved in in 1961. Her last two PBS series were filmed in this kitchen.

(REPRINTED WITH SPECIAL PERMISSION OF KING FEATURES SYNDICATE)

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ounders of the American Institute of Wine and Food: Richard Graff (Chalone Vineyard), Julia, Robert Huttenback (chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara), and Robert Mondavi, March 17, 1984, at a lunch honoring Graff at the Mondavi vineyard in the Napa Valley.

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udith Jones, her editor at Knopf beginning in 1960, and Julia, at work on
Cooking with Master Chefs
, 1993.
(BARRY MICHLIN PHOTOGRAPHER)

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BOUT THE AUTHOR

N
OËL RILEY FITCH
is an internationally recognized biographer. Her critically acclaimed
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
(1983), now in its eleventh printing, and
Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin
(1993) have been translated into French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She has also authored books on Hemingway and on the literary cafés of Paris, as well as scholarly articles on the French-American connection. Fitch earned a Ph.D. in literature and is a lecturer at the American University of Paris and the University of Southern California.

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, MAY 1999

Copyright © 1997 by Noël Riley Fitch

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1997. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday hardcover edition of
this book as follows:
Fitch, Noël Riley.
     Appetite for life : the biography of Julia Child / Noël Riley
Fitch. —1st ed.
          p. cm.
     1. Child, Julia. 2. Cooks—United States—Biography. I. Title.
TX649.C47F57 1997
641.5′092—dc21
[B]                                                                                                     97-11061

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