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As always, Julia the letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto : food, friendship, and the making of a masterpiece

Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julia's deepest thoughts and feelings.

Main Author: Child, Julia.
Other Authors: Reardon, Joan, 1930-, De Voto, Avis.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co., 2010.
Subjects:
Child, Julia > Correspondence.
De Voto, Avis > Correspondence.
Cooks > United States > Correspondence.
Summary: Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julia's deepest thoughts and feelings.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: xiii, 416 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780547417714 (hc.)
0547417713 (hc.)
Author Notes: Culinary historian, cookbook author, and biographer Joan Reardon is the author of M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, M.F.K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans, Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher, and Oysters: a Culinary Celebration. Reardon, who has a PhD in English literature, won an IACP Award for culinary writing, publishes and edits a quarterly newsletter for Les Dames d'Escoffier Chicago, and serves on the advisory board of Gastronomica magazine.

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