--- product_id: 3497915 title: "My Life in France" price: "64.33 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3497915-my-life-in-france store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 4.6/5 Stars from 4,172 Reviews Top #35,991 Bestseller Ranked #25 Gastronomy History My Life in France **Price:** 64.33 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🍷 Savor the story behind the legend—Julia Child’s French adventure awaits! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** My Life in France - **How much does it cost?** 64.33 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3497915-my-life-in-france) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Inspiring Journey to Fame:** Witness the grit behind Julia’s rise from novice to culinary legend. - • **Dive into Culinary History:** Explore Julia Child’s transformative years in France that shaped modern American cuisine. - • **A Must-Have for Food Lovers:** Join thousands who cherish this heartfelt memoir blending passion, perseverance, and gourmet adventure. - • **Authentic French Experience:** Relive the vibrant culture, markets, and iconic cooking classes at Le Cordon Bleu. - • **Rich, Evocative Storytelling:** Captivating prose that immerses you in the sights, smells, and tastes of post-war France. ## Overview My Life in France is Julia Child’s intimate memoir chronicling her early years in France, where she discovered her passion for cooking and transformed American cuisine. Ranked among the top gastronomy books with a 4.6-star rating from over 4,000 readers, this bestseller offers a vivid, heartfelt glimpse into the culture, challenges, and triumphs that shaped a culinary icon. ## Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is "captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef , Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia’s unforgettable story—struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe—unfolds with the spirit so key to Julia’s success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of America’s most endearing personalities. Review: Bon Appetit! - This is a beautiful insight into the life of a woman who has done so very much for the home cooks of America. It is told with personality and warmth, celebration and heartache. An ode to good food, good company, good conversation. To be savored and you will be sad when it is ended! Review: Completely Charming - "Every field was an explosion of fragrant and colorful bougainvilleas, brooms, mimosas, or daisies. Warm, salty breezes blew off the Mediterranean. There were dramatic rocky cliffs along the coast, snow-topped Alps looming in the background...I found my senses were nearly overwhelmed." ~ pg. 49 When friends started to tell me that I must watch "Julie and Julia" I put the movie on my Netflix list and didn't think too much about it. Then a friend sent me a recipe adaptation of Boeuf Bourguignon and I adapted the recipe even more (I use less Burgundy). After trying that recipe I became even more interested in the movie and recipes. I had actually reviewed Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home the year I started reviewing and had watched a special on Julia Child's life sometime before. At one point (I think because of my reviews) I was invited to see Julia Child. I think it was around $400 so I wasn't able to meet her because at the time all my money was going into testing recipes for my own cookbook. However it wasn't until I watched the "Julie and Julia" movie that I became very interested in Julia Child's life. "My Life in France" is completely charming in every way. Since I visited France in 1996 I could relate to Julia Child's love of Provence and her love affair with Paris. I loved reading about Cassis and Marseille as it reminded me of the bakery we found and how delicious the fresh fish was at a restaurant by the Mediterranean Sea. Alex Prud'homme effectively captures Julia Child's voice by interviewing her and by obviously reading many of Paul and Julia's letters. There is probably no way anyone could remember such an amazing amount of details like the exact weather and the menu at restaurants. All these details about food make the book absolutely tantalizing. Julia's love of life comes through so well in the captivating warm prose. I could relate to the years Juila Child spent working on her cookbooks to the point of obsession. Her second book took nine years to produce. She really struggled to birth her books and had to deal with moving from country to country with all her kitchen equipment. It is fun to read about her rhapsodizing over kitchen stores. She was fascinated by kitchen gadgets. Once Juila Child discovered her love of cooking she never looked back. It is amazing how her entire life revolved around cooking. She made writing recipes into a total adventure. At one point she does some investigative reporting when she wants to learn to make beurre blanc. Somehow she had the money to go to some of the best restaurants in France. The main thing I loved about this book is how it effectively documents the stages Julia Child went through to become an icon. She truly had to work for her fame although at times it seemed like she was just at the right place at the right time. My only complaint about the book is that some of the French words don't come with any translation. You are at times left to imagine what was said. ~The Rebecca Review ## Features - Great product! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #35,991 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #25 in Gastronomy History (Books) #34 in Gastronomy Essays (Books) #47 in Culinary Biographies & Memoirs | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 4,172 Reviews | ## Images ![My Life in France - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81TLgMgmqBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bon Appetit! *by S***X on June 21, 2026* This is a beautiful insight into the life of a woman who has done so very much for the home cooks of America. It is told with personality and warmth, celebration and heartache. An ode to good food, good company, good conversation. To be savored and you will be sad when it is ended! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Completely Charming *by T***W on January 18, 2010* "Every field was an explosion of fragrant and colorful bougainvilleas, brooms, mimosas, or daisies. Warm, salty breezes blew off the Mediterranean. There were dramatic rocky cliffs along the coast, snow-topped Alps looming in the background...I found my senses were nearly overwhelmed." ~ pg. 49 When friends started to tell me that I must watch "Julie and Julia" I put the movie on my Netflix list and didn't think too much about it. Then a friend sent me a recipe adaptation of Boeuf Bourguignon and I adapted the recipe even more (I use less Burgundy). After trying that recipe I became even more interested in the movie and recipes. I had actually reviewed Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home the year I started reviewing and had watched a special on Julia Child's life sometime before. At one point (I think because of my reviews) I was invited to see Julia Child. I think it was around $400 so I wasn't able to meet her because at the time all my money was going into testing recipes for my own cookbook. However it wasn't until I watched the "Julie and Julia" movie that I became very interested in Julia Child's life. "My Life in France" is completely charming in every way. Since I visited France in 1996 I could relate to Julia Child's love of Provence and her love affair with Paris. I loved reading about Cassis and Marseille as it reminded me of the bakery we found and how delicious the fresh fish was at a restaurant by the Mediterranean Sea. Alex Prud'homme effectively captures Julia Child's voice by interviewing her and by obviously reading many of Paul and Julia's letters. There is probably no way anyone could remember such an amazing amount of details like the exact weather and the menu at restaurants. All these details about food make the book absolutely tantalizing. Julia's love of life comes through so well in the captivating warm prose. I could relate to the years Juila Child spent working on her cookbooks to the point of obsession. Her second book took nine years to produce. She really struggled to birth her books and had to deal with moving from country to country with all her kitchen equipment. It is fun to read about her rhapsodizing over kitchen stores. She was fascinated by kitchen gadgets. Once Juila Child discovered her love of cooking she never looked back. It is amazing how her entire life revolved around cooking. She made writing recipes into a total adventure. At one point she does some investigative reporting when she wants to learn to make beurre blanc. Somehow she had the money to go to some of the best restaurants in France. The main thing I loved about this book is how it effectively documents the stages Julia Child went through to become an icon. She truly had to work for her fame although at times it seemed like she was just at the right place at the right time. My only complaint about the book is that some of the French words don't come with any translation. You are at times left to imagine what was said. ~The Rebecca Review ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ France, France, France "Julia loved France" *by M***Y on July 7, 2014* This book is more than a book about cooking, it is a book about French cuisine, postwar France, friends, and people we too often take for granted in everyday life. When Julia puts herself back in time and place you feel like you are there with her talking to and interacting with the vegetable lady, the cheese monger, the man who tells you how to judge the age of the partridge and more. Along the way, Julia offers us her very subjective impression of the French as a whole and how they react to outsiders, for example, "The French are very sensitive to personal dynamics, and they believe that you must earn your rewards. If a tourist enters a food stall thinking he’s going to be cheated, the salesman will sense this and obligingly cheat him. But if a Frenchman senses that a visitor is delighted to be in his store, and takes a genuine interest in what is for sale, then he’ll just open up like a flower. The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn’t willing to take the time to get to know them and their wares, then I would not go home with the freshest legumes or cuts of meat in my basket. They certainly made me work for my supper—but, oh, what suppers!" Julia becomes very much a Francophile. And, like many Francophiles she cannot resist taking a shot at the British. "I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena. The Old Sod never laid a haunting melody on me gut strings. In a way, I felt that I understood England intuitively, because it reminded me of visiting my relatives in Massachusetts, who were much more formal and conformist than I was." This little aside about the Brits perhaps tells you more about Julia than the inhabitants of those isles. Key to this is that she not only sees herself as a nonconformist, but revels in that role. Notably, besides distancing herself from the Brits, she also distances herself from her New England heritage and in other places notes that she could never live in like Pasadena, California where her parents lived. For her Pasadena is just too Republican and too uncultured. She also has less than kind words for various others. Okay, so she is -- at times -- pretty judgmental. But, at heart this is a book about Julia's journey, make that obsession with mastering as much as she can of French cuisine. Along the way there memorable restaurants, markets, and of course, her efforts at Le Cordon Bleu. It was not an easy journey, but Julia's pursuit of Le Grand Diplome was relentless. Once, that was in her grasp, she began to collaborate with two other women to produce the landmark "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." Getting that book in publishable form and published was another almost Herculean task. But, through almost ceaseless effort and determination and with a little help from her friends she succeeds. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I have tried to watch the movie "Julie and Julia," but have never managed to stay awake for very much of it. Maybe, I'll try again. ## Frequently Bought Together - My Life in France - Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol.1 --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3497915-my-life-in-france](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3497915-my-life-in-france) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-09-29*