Bertholle, Louisette Remion, 1953-1967 : Correspondence. 1953-1967.

Format:

Other

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Paris (France).

France.

Child, Julia.

Beck, Simone.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2020.

Language Note:

French; English

Summary:

Topics covered include the general development of Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle's book, as well as for Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Contains letters from Bertholle on cooking school headed paper; discussions of the reception of the book, cooking school, the second volume and printing, recipes and Julia Child's television work. Also includes a letter in which Child comments on the impact of McCarthyism. This document contains a mixture of printed and handwritten correspondence as well as large sections written in French.

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:14.167-68

Series II. CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-1992 (#45-513, 1377-1382, 1398m);Subseries B, Cookery, 1951-1992 (#119-352, 1382), contains Julia Child's correspondence with culinary friends and colleagues, including Simone Beck, James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Madeleine Kamman, Anne Willan, etc.; and with and about cooking schools. Child has included her own cross-references among the correspondence: some of these notes are written at the top of letters, some are on separate sheets of paper. Most folders include incoming as well as Child's outgoing letters. Many include clippings, menus, etc. Most of Simone Beck's letters to Child are in French. Correspondence with Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky is about their establishment of La Varenne, a cooking school in Paris. More correspondence with Avis DeVoto is in her Papers (A-167) and unprocessed additional papers. The arrangement of alphabetical files follows Julia Child's original order. Correspondence with cooking schools and chefs follows a general alphabetical order.;Subseries B. Cookery, 1951-1992 (#119-352, 1382)

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