12 Top food books like My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme

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My Life in France

By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F…

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1. As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

By: Joan Reardon , Avis DeVoto

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known by her first name alone. But how much do we real… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
"It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)"

-Joan Reardon, As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

"To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to …"

-Joan Reardon, As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

"You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and te…"

-Joan Reardon, As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

"I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands and get along with people -- a…"

-Joan Reardon, As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

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2. The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

By: Alex Prud'Homme

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as a TV personality and beloved cookbook author, a sequ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
"I have been seduced and I have seduced. But this, dear friends, and gentle mouths...this was a Seduction."

-Alex Prud'Homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

"No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing," she assured readers. "This is my invariable advice to people: Learn to cook - try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all …"

-Alex Prud'Homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

"In keeping with the personal tone, Jones wanted to call the book From Julia's Kitchen, but the author demurred: "People won't know who 'Julia' is," she said. "Of course they will!" the editor retorte…"

-Alex Prud'Homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

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3. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

By: Ruth Reichl

4.18

Format: None pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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4. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

By: Jacques Pépin

2.50

Format: None pages,

In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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5. Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

By: Bob Spitz

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

It's rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr

6. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By: Luke Barr

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Hardcover

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coinci… read more

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  • biography
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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7. The Year of Yes

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.20

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

"Why not go out on a date with everyone who asks you? Plenty of reasons. They might be crazy. They … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

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8. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

By: Julie Powell

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how s… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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9. My Life in France

By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more

Similar categories in Julia Child's My Life in France book and Julia Child's My Life in France

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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10. A Year in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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11. In Search Of My Sexy Old Self: Re-discovering sex after sixty and beyond

By: Cathy Thomas

4.10

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Why has sex just stopped? That's the question Cathy asks herself when sexual intimacy dwindles and … read more

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12. Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table

By: Ruth Reichl

3.33

Format: 161 pages,

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13. The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City

By: David Lebovitz

3.37

Format: 245 pages,

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14. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more

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15. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

By: Ruth Reichl

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or t… read more

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16. Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

By: Noël Riley Fitch

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our… read more

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17. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Julia Child's My Life in France

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

18. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

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19. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

By: Ruth Reichl

4.10

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country."

-Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

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20. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • travel
  • food
  • france
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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21. Taste: My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci

4.21

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

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