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LAURA SHAPIRO
Julia Child
A Penguin Life
A LIPPER™/VIKING BOOK
VIKING
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First published in 2007 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Copyright © Laura Shapiro, 2007
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A portion of this book appeared in different form as “Sacred Cows and Dreamberries: In Search of the Flavor of France,” Gastronomica 5, no. 3 (Summer 2005).
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Shapiro, Laura.
Julia Child / Laura Shapiro.
p. cm.—(A Penguin life)
ISBN: 978-1-1012-0293-7
1. Child, Julia. 2. Cooks—United States—Biography. I. Title.
TX649.C47S53 2007
641.5092—dc22 2006052560
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To Barbara Haber
PREFACE
IT’S A BIG, RAW GOOSE, naked as a baby, and she’s holding it up by its massive wings, gleefully wiggling them before the camera as if she’d like to waltz around the kitchen with her magnificent bird. “A ten-pound beauty!” she exclaims. “You can cut it all up, simmer it in wine, serve it with a delicious sauce—see how to ragout a goose, today on The French Chef!”
Julia Child loved handling food. She loved slathering great gobs of butter around a pan with her bare hand and plunging a forefinger into a thick