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Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes the French Chef by Alex Prud’Homme

March 2, 2022 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

Julia Child was just bada$$. Working in the Office of Strategic Services, learning to cook as an “older” woman, inventing a formula that was a shark repellent (wonder if that is where Batman got his Bat-Shark Repellent?) and just being herself, Child was and would become (in her words) Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes the French Chef and would teach others that it was worth the time to learn how to do thing the “right way” when it came to cooking the perfect dish or […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction, Romance Tagged With: alex prud'homme, chefs, French cooking, julia child, Sarah Green, United States - 20th Century, women history

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:80 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction, Romance · Tags: alex prud'homme, chefs, French cooking, julia child, Sarah Green, United States - 20th Century, women history ·
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