Warming Up Julia Child: The Remarkable Figures Who Shaped a Legend

Warming Up Julia Child is a book that explores Julia Child's life and the team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career. It reveals how the savvy of these helpers, collaborators, and supporters contributed to Julia's overwhelming success, highlighting her unique capacity for forming fruitful alliances.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 23 June 2022
Publisher: Pegasus Books

Julia Child's remarkable life is explored in depth in a new book that delves into an unexplored aspect of her career: the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career. Julia Child's iconic Mastering the Art of French Cooking and beloved television show, The French Chef, required a team of innovators to bring forth her unique presence and personality. Warming Up Julia Child offers a behind-the-scenes look at this supporting team, revealing how the savvy of these helpers, collaborators, and supporters contributed to Julia's overwhelming success.

Julia Child is the central subject, but Helen Horowitz shares the stage with those who aided her work. She reveals that the most important element in Julia Child's ultimate success was her extraordinary ability to form fruitful alliances, whether it was her husband, Paul Child, Simone Beck, Avis DeVoto, Judith Jones, and William Koshland (at Knopf), or Ruth Lockwood (at WGBH). Without the contribution of these six collaborators, Julia could never have accomplished what she did.

Warming Up Julia Child is filled with vivid correspondence, fascinating characters, and the iconic joie de vivre that makes us come back to Julia again and again. It is an essential read for anyone who adores Julia and her legacy.

Weight: 462g
Dimension: 161 x 236 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781643139388