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Avis DeVoto handled much of her husband's correspondence during his lifetime, and it was her reply to a letter from Julia Child in Paris addressed to Bernard DeVoto that initiated the correspondence. An Easy Chair column decrying the ubiquitous, dull, stainless steel American paring knife had struck a sympathetic chord with Julia Child who decided to contribute a sharp, carbon steel French ...
Avis Devoto, the wife of Bernard DeVoto, struck up a close friendship with Julia Child in the 1950s while Child was working on the book that would become Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She was a book reviewer, editor, and avid cook, and a believer in Child's book from the beginning.
1 gen 2010 · The book is a damned hoot. It's just the rambling letters, in the days before international or even long-distance calls were common. They write of their lives, their pains, their husbands, their work (as both women were brilliant, if unconventional "business women"), Avis' children, Julia's travels.
10 mag 2011 · Avis DeVoto typically handled much of her busy husband's correspondence so she was the one who wrote back to this stranger, at some length, confessing her own interest in cooking and cutlery. Her gracious and engaging response kindled a remarkable correspondence that continued until 1961, the same year the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking was published.
10 apr 2011 · "An absorbing portrait of an unexpected friendship."-Entertainment Weekly "The spirit of the indomitable Julia Child lives on in Joan Reardon’s AS ALWAYS, JULIA, a saucy soup-to-nuts compilation of the correspondence between Child and lifelong friend Avis DeVoto.
4 mar 2011 · Julia Child and Avis DeVoto began their friendship in 1952 as pen pals. Avis’s husband, Bernard, had written a diatribe against stainless steel knives; Julia wrote him a fan letter from Paris; Avis answered it from Cambridge. They remained friends until Avis’s death in 1989.
1 dic 2010 · Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in the hit movie Julie & Julia, open the window on Julia’s deepest thoughts and feelings.
