Paul child letters to his brother

April 6, 2006 — -- Before famous chef Julia Child died two years ago at the age of 91, she inspired her grandnephew Alex Prud'homme to complete a memoir about her first trip to France with her new husband, Paul Child.

After Child tried French food, she was hooked and studied at the Cordon Bleu under Chef Bugnard.

Paul child letters to his brother

Her career as a culinary star had begun.

Foreword

In August 2004, Julia Child and I sat in her small, lush garden in Montecito, California, talking about her life. She was thin and a bit stooped, but more vigorous than she'd been in weeks.

We were in the midst of writing this book together. When I asked her what she remembered about Paris in the 1950s, she recalled that she had learned to cook everything from snails to wild boar at the Cordon Bleu; that marketing in France had taught her the value of "les human relations"; she lamented that in her day the American housewife had to juggle cooking the soup