The American chef Julia Child describes how her husband approached letter-writing in an age when trans-Atlantic telephone calls were prohibitively expensive and letter-writing was the normal way to stay in touch at a distance. It inspired me to start writing letters again after a hiatus of half a year – the first six pager was sent off a week or two ago, and I have dusted down my home-printed letter paper to add others to the pile of Christmas cards I’ve prepared. Â
The letters Paul and Julia Child wrote were kept and later proved the basis for this book about their life in France in the 1950s.Â
Paul took lettering writing seriously: he’d set aside time for it, tried to document our day-to-day lives in a journalistic way, and usually wrote three to six pages a week in a beautiful flowing hand with a special fountain pen; often he included little sketches of places we’d visited, or photos … or made mini-collages out of ticket stubs or newsprint.Â
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Source: Julia Child, My Life in France (New York: Anchor Books, 2007), p. 7
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