Physically awkward and socially graceless, with a voice only a Canada goose could love, Julia Child was the last person on earth about whom anyone would’ve thought to say, Oh, that one—she’s going to bring the subtle, sophisticated pleasures of French cuisine to the American table. Yet that’s what Child and her two French coauthors did, in 1961, with the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking—the book that also, arguably, triggered the whole foodie revolution. William Brown and Doug Frew’s delicious play To Master the Art follows Child’s progress from relative hickishness as a new arrival in post-World War II Paris, through a decade-long immersion in la gastronomie francaise, to the eve of her rebirth as a doyenne.
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