Sunday, January 21, 2007

1. My Life in France


Julia Childs - Audio CD, Rated C

I checked this book out on a whim and while it was OK, it was really not my cup of tea. A memoir of that begins when Julia and new husband Paul Child moved to france where he was working at the American Embassy. She became interested in French cooking and enrolled the Cordon Bleu Cooking school and later went on to co-write a French Cookbook aimed at the American market. It drug in parts and had my eyes rolling when she describes in detail how she spent three months obsessively trying to perfect the perfect mayonnaise. But then I, a complete cretin, think the perfect mayonnaise comes in a jar marked Hellmans.