Dearie End Notes
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- Prologue
- One - Paradise
- Two - On Her Way
- Three - Julia of the Almost Spring
- Four - Only a Butterfly
- Five - Keeper of the Secrets
- Six - Paul
- Seven - A Diamond in the Rough
- Eight - Lucky to be Alive
- Nine - Devouring Paris Whole
- Ten - Lady Sings The Blues
- Eleven - What She'd Gotten Herself Into
- Twelve - A Memorable Feast
- Thirteen - Frenchy French
- Fourteen - This Elephant of Ours
- Fifteen - Julia's Turn to Bloom
- Sixteen - Taking Everything in Stride
- Seventeen - A Monstrously Busy Life
- Eighteen - A Law Unto Herself
- Nineteen - The Mad Women of La Peetch
- Twenty - A Household Name
- Twenty one - We Are Not All Eternal
- Twenty two - Looking Forward
- Twenty three - Enough
- Twenty four - The End of an Era
- Twenty five - No One Gets Out Alive
- Twenty six - The Beginning of the End
- Twenty seven - The Raft
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Prologue
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Prologue
"Now, dearie, I will require": Russ Morash, interview with author, December 11, 2008.
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"the shows were as dry as toast": Miffy Goodhart, interview with author, September 24, 2009.
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"I was sort of a comic": Curtis Hartman and Steven Raichlen, "JC: The Boston Magazine Interview," Boston, April 1981, p. 79.
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"She is unusually strong physically": Paul Child (hereafter PC), letter to CC, in Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 140.
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"I could literally feel myself knitting": JC, letter to Avis DeVoto, undated, 1956.
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Prologue
Jacques Pépin described her: Jacques Pépin, interview with author, January 6, 2009.
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"taking [it] out of cuckooland": Henry, "The Wonder Child," Vogue, June 1969, p. 172.
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"I take it you’ve never worked": Confidential source, interview with author.
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"Homemakers read The Feminine Mystique": Shapiro, Something from the Oven, pp. 230–31.
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"With the Kennedys": Sharon Hudgins, "What’s Cooking with Julia Child," Stars and Stripes, September 27, 1984, p. 104.
