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Podcast: New Books in Food
Episode: Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)
Description: I confess I knew nothing about Julia Child prior to reading Bob Spitz‘s new book. And yet, from the dramatic opening passages through its 500+ pages, Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child (Knopf, 2012) held me captive.
How many people, much less women, change our attitudes, beliefs, and culture? Julia Child did. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that she did so by becoming a television star at the age of 50.
One of the problems of biography is that women’s lives are so often written so badly. Whereas the telling of men’s lives...