Ah, Julia!

A New York Times book review on Julia Child's "My Life in France" (written with Alex Prud'homme) boasts a sentence by Child that is particularly worth reading.

The prose, direct and energetic, abounds in one-word summations like phooey, marvelous, yuck, and yum. Every day in France brought a thrilling new discovery, but Child's capacity for wonder and delight coexisted with "show me" skepticism. When a woman in Marseille tries to tell her that real bouillabaisse never, ever includes tomatoes, she tosses that opinion right out of court. "Such dogmatism, founded on ignorance and expressed with a blast of hot air, irked me," she writes.

The review, "Julia Child's Memoir of When Cuisine Was French for Scary," can be found here (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/books/review/08grim.html).