Julia Child, who belonged to my grandparents’ generation, describes day-to-day life in Paris right after World War II in a way American generations since have not experienced.
Actually, that’s not so true anymore–the 9/11 attacks and the prolonged political squabbling over a memorial, which Julie Powell describes tangentially in Julie & Julia, kept the rubble exposed [...]
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I don’t know if I’m looking forward to this Friday’s release of the movie Julie & Julia or not. I’ve read both of the books it’s based on and liked them both, and I’ve been an avid fan of Julia Child as a person if not as a chef since I was four years old [...]
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