Julia Child

Author of the forthcoming <i>What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories </i>(Summer 2017) <p/>With a swooping voice an irrepressible sense of humor and a passion for good food Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance. In Julia Child award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child's unlikely career path from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in a World War II spy station to bewildered amateur cook and finally to the Cordon Bleu in Paris the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially American right down to her little-known recipe for classic tuna fish casserole Shapiro's <i>Julia Child</i> personifies her own most famous lesson: that learning how to cook means learning how to live.