Julia Child was a directionless, gawky young woman who ran off halfway around the world to join a spy agency during World War II.
At its heart, Dearie is a story about a woman s search for her own unique expression. In Dearie, Spitz employs the same skill he brought to his best-selling, critically acclaimed book The Beatles, providing a clear-eyed portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential Americans of our time a woman known to all, yet known by only a few. Now, in Bob Spitz s definitive, wonderfully affectionate biography, the Julia we know and love comes vividly and surprisingly to life. The warble-voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule-breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. And yet, that s exactly what Julia Child did. It s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. It s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture.
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