My life in France (Julia Child & Alex Prud'homme

This memoire covers most of Julia Child's married life, in her own voice (she worked on the book with her grand-nephew, though it was finished after her death). It tells of her falling in love with France and French cooking, getting her diploma from the Cordon Bleu, starting a cooking school, writing Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and making her TV show, all interwoven with her relationships with family, friends, and great names in the world of food. It is a charming, optimistic book, with only occasional frustration when I couldn't puzzle out the untranslated French phrases. Though many of the classic French dishes she describes didn't sound appealing to me, her joy and enthusiasm are contagious.