New Julia Child Biography

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Julia Child made her TV cooking debut in 1962, in black and white, and by the time she had finished making an omelet, audiences were hooked. TV cooking has never been the same.

Now, in time for what would have been the late chef's 100th birthday on August 15, Bob Spitz has written a soup-to-nuts biography of her life.

Spitz takes readers from her childhood in Pasadena, Calif., to her days at Smith College and her work for America's first intelligence agency during World War II to her introduction to serious cooking in France. ]

While the book begins with her first television appearance, it backtracks to her youth, and readers will  follow her enrollment in cooking classes at Paris' Le Cordon Bleu until more than a third of the way into the book.

Spitz spent four years researching and writing the 500-plus-page tome. Still shy of the 700-plus pages of Child's first cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," but Spitz  has produced a deliciously satisfying read. As Child would say, "Bon appetit!"

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