Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Childby Bob Spitz
Not being a scholar of the subject, I'm not qualified to say this is an excellent biography of Julia Child. But I liked it a lot. All it lacked was a video component that followed Julia and Paul around on their early days in France, like the movie Julie and Julia but more.
When are some clever people going to get a commercially available holodeck programmed with periods in history? I vote for this one! I can visit France and imagine what it used to be; I can cook the food (but with modern ingredients); I can play the old-time music. But I can't be there.
This book didn't quite take me there, but it's a good, solid biography.
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