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Warming up Julia Child the remarkable figures who shaped a legend

"Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innovators to bring out her unique presence and personality. Warming Up Julia Child is behind-the-scenes look at this supporting team, revealing how the savvy of these helpers,...

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Main Author: Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Pegasus Books, 2022.
Edition:First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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Child, Julia.
Child, Julia > Friends and associates.
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz > Friends and associates.
Cooks > United States > Biography.
Women cooks > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
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Summary:"Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innovators to bring out her unique presence and personality. Warming Up Julia Child is behind-the-scenes look at this supporting team, revealing how the savvy of these helpers, collaborators, and supporters contributed to Julia's overwhelming success." --Provided by Publisher.
Physical Description:xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.
ISBN:9781643139388
164313938X
Author Notes:Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz , Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American History and American Studies, emerita, Smith College, is a historian whose work has focused on the cultural history of the U.S. and on culturally important biographical subjects. Honors include the 2003 citation for her book Rereading Sex (Knopf, 2002) as one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Merle Curti Award given by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social or intellectual history. In 2011 she (in conjunction with Patricia Hills) won the W.E. Fischelis Book Award of the Victorian Society of America for John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women . Helen is also a well-known emerita professor at Smith College. The college's large alumnae are unusually loyal to their alma mater, as was Julia Child during her lifetime.

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