Warming Up Julia Child, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Warming Up Julia Child, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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Warming Up Julia Child
The Remarkable Figures Who Shaped a Legend

Author: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2022

Synopsis

A Pulitzer Prize finalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's life—the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career.Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innovators to bring out her unique presence and personality. Warming Up Julia Child is 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. In today’s parlance, they were her posse, her entourage.Julia is the central subject, but Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz has her share the stage with those who aided her work. She reveals that the most important element in Julia Child’s ultimate success was her unusual capacity for forming fruitful alliances, whether it was Paul Child, Simone Beck, Avis DeVoto, Judith Jones and William Koshland (at Knopf), and Ruth Lockwood (at WGBH). Without the contribution of these six collaborators Julia could never have accomplished what she did.Filled with vivid correspondence, fascinating characters, and the iconic joie de vivre that makes us come back to Julia again and again, Warming Up Julia Child is essential reading for anyone who adores Julia and her legacy.

About Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is a Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American History and American Studies, emerita, Smith College. Honors include the 2003 citation for her book Rereading Sex as one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Merle Curti Award given by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social or intellectual history. In 2011 she (in conjunction with Patricia Hills) won the W. E. Fischelis Book Award of the Victorian Society of America for John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women.

About Ann Richardson

Ann Richardson is an Earphones-winning narrator who studied broadcast journalism and Spanish at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Years later, the desire to take up a creative yet productive career lead her to narrating audiobooks and founding Great Plains Audiobooks, an audiobook publishing company focusing on bringing Midwestern literature to audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on April 12, 2022

My review of Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’s book, “Warming Up Julia Child: The Remarkable Figures Who Shaped a Legend”, is a very difficult one for me to write. I’m basing my review partially on a metric I’ve never used before when rating a book and that is “price of the book”. For some reason - inexpl......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 06, 2024

Despite the obnoxiously suggestive title, with no content to support it, I enjoyed the clear reading of the audiobook by Ann Richardson. Author Horowitz is equally clear in her writing, if somewhat repetitive. Easy to follow the story of Julia’s rise to fame and fortune, and to keep track of the six......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on January 15, 2025

This book is not for everyone, but I loved it! It’s a book that explains the people around Julia Child, who, without them, could not have become “The Julia Child”. It was interesting to me because I love learning about writers and peoples paths to “overnight success”. Haha - If you read this, you wi......more

Goodreads review by Sue on April 03, 2022

A look at the people who helped shape Julia Child into the revered and beloved icon she became. Thank you Pegasus Press for the advanced copy! Here's my review: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on June 02, 2023

At 6'2" in mid century America, Julia Child was larger than life already, but when the book she devoted more than a decade of her life to was published and she started giving cooking lessons over the airwaves and not just in private homes, her public presence became truly remarkable and she joined t......more

Quotes

“Intimate insights into how Julia developed a network of talented, nurturing colleagues who helped transform her into a highly revered cultural icon.” Bookist (starred review)

“Follows Child’s ten-year path to fame, all of which is recounted in Richardson’s bright voice.” AudioFile

“Does justice to all six of Julia’s warriors and elucidates their connections by supplying excerpts from their written correspondence…Warming Up Julia Child is, like its subject, a charmer.” Shelf Awareness

“Juxtaposes Child’s struggles with self-doubt…with intimate exchanges of encouragement between the chef and her most trusted aides, as well as colorful accounts of Child’s achievements as recorded in her husband’s daily diary.” Publishers Weekly

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