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Chargement... Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child (2012)par Bob Spitz
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz is a 2012 Knopf publication. Julia Child, maybe the first wildly successful ‘celebrity’ chefs, has never really gone out of style. Her popularity has waxed and waned, but somehow, over the years she has become a pop culture staple and her life is endlessly fascinating. That said, despite how liked and respected Julia was, a book with over a thousand pages dedicated to one person, who isn’t a world leader, or something, is perhaps a wee bit overboard. This book is incredibly comprehensive, but unnecessarily so, for the most part. The approach is one of effusive positivity, portraying Julia in the best possible light, but is obviously researched- though, as with any biography, especially those in which the author hasn’t included many of the subject’s less than flattering aspects, one should always be careful about taking everything at face value. I do believe some of Julia's politics caused backlash the book sort of glossed over. Beyond those quibbles, Julia’s story is certainly an interesting one. She was a late bloomer in many ways, proving it is never too late to achieve success- as she didn’t hit her stride until she was over fifty. She began with writing cookbooks, which morphed into her wildly popular cooking show on PBS, and eventually became a household name, a celebrity, and even brand. I enjoyed the new HBO series about her segue into becoming a television chef and understand there will be a second season of the show- If you haven’t seen it, it’s simply delightful and very well acted. This book fills in some of the blanks- such as Julia’s difficult relationship with her father- a right wing conservative who disliked Julia’s more liberal opinions and made no secret he disliked her husband, Paul. This book also details Julia’s life beyond her days on PBS, her complicated relationship with Simca,(Simone Beck), the French chef who co-wrote many of Julia’s cookbooks, but didn’t enjoy the same celebrity, as well as offering further details of her work during the second world war, which has been slightly over exaggerated, but intriguing all the same. It’s incredible that Julia is still a top draw, that she became an icon of sorts, and that her life has been the subject of so much scrutiny and imagination. The people she influenced, the market she pretty much invented, has become a part of our everyday lives now. I think Julia showed everyone, not just women, who were the primary cooks in families during the early sixties, that cooking doesn’t necessarily have to be a chore. It can be a source of, or outlet for creativity, imagination, and pride. It can bring people together, be a source of joy and comfort and I also think Julia, not being afraid to make mistakes, to laugh off her goofs and missteps, gave everyone the confidence to get in the kitchen and try something new and different and to keep at it until you’ve mastered it. She also proved it could be a lucrative career choice as well. Julia didn’t fit inside any mold and used that to her advantage. We owe a lot to Julia and it’s good to see that her legacy lives on… Overall, even with someone as charismatic as Julia Child- there can be too much of a good thing- and unfortunately, this book is a good example of that. That said, I found Julia to be an inspiration- although, I didn’t always agree with her approach, her opinions, or decisions. She did indeed live quite a remarkable life, though, and there is no doubt she was a quite a character…. With butter and cream on top!! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:Itâ??s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. Itâ??s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, thatâ??s exactly what Julia Child did. The warble-voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule-breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. Now, in Bob Spitzâ??s definitive, wonderfully affectionate biography, the Julia we know and love comes vividly â?? and surprisingly â?? to life. In Dearie, Spitz employs the same skill he brought to his best-selling, critically acclaimed book The Beatles, providing a clear-eyed portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential Americans of our time â?? a woman known to all, yet known by only a few. At its heart, Dearie is a story about a womanâ??s search for her own unique expression. Julia Child was a directionless, gawky young woman who ran off halfway around the world to join a spy agency during World War II. She eventually settled in Paris, where she learned to cook and collaborated on the writing of what would become Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a book that changed the food culture of America. She was already fifty when The French Chef went on the air â?? at a time in our history when women werenâ??t making those leaps. Julia became the first educational TV star, virtually launching PBS as we know it today; her marriage to Paul Child formed a decades-long love story that was romantic, touching, and quite extraordinary. A fearless, ambitious, supremely confident woman, Julia took on all the pretensions that embellished tony French cuisine and fricasseed them to a fare-thee-well, paving the way for everything that has happened since in American cooking, from TV dinners and Big Macs to sea urchin foam and the Food Channel. Julia Childâ??s story, however, is more than the tale of a talented woman and her sumptuous craft. It is also a saga of Americaâ??s coming of age and growing sophistication, from the Depression Era to the turbulent sixties and the excesses of the eighties to the greening of the American kitchen. Julia had an effect on and was equally affected by the baby boom, the sexual revolution, and the start of the womenâ??s liberation movement. On the centenary of her birth, Julia finally gets the biography she richly deserves. An in-depth, intimate narrative, full of fresh information and insights, Dearie is an entertaining, all-out adventure story of one of ou Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Overall, a fantastic book. ( )