My Life in France, by Julia Child

The popularity of the movie Julie and Julia has led to renewed interest in Julia Child’s classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and in this recent memoir of her life, which written in her nineties with the help of her nephew grandnephew, Alex Prud’homme. It is delightful and captures both her distinctive voice and the joys finding one’s true work in middle age. And it gives her husband, Paul, who lived his own interesting life, credit for all his behind the scenes support of his 6’2” ebullient wife. 352 pp.