Recounts how the author escaped the doldrums of an unpromising career and lackluster Queens apartment by mastering every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a year-long endeavor of humor and accomplishment that transformed her life. Reader's Guide included. Reprint Author's Note
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The Road to Hell Is Paved with Leeks and Potatoes
5(22)
Joy of Cooking
27(11)
You Have to Break a Few Eggs...
38(21)
Hacking the Marrow Out of Life
59(22)
...To Make an Omelette
81(14)
Disaster / Dinner Party, Dinner Party/Disaster
95(24)
The Law of Diminishing Returns
119(28)
They Shoot Lobsters, Don't They?
147(22)
The Proof Is in the Plumbing
169(22)
Sweet Smell of Failure
191(12)
Flaming Crepes!
203(24)
Time to Move to Weehawken
227(16)
"Only in America"
243(22)
Simplicity Itself
265(36)
...Well, Not Quite
301(8)
Acknowledgments
309(2)
Reading Group Guide
311
