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Avis DeVoto (May 22, 1904 – March 7, 1989) was an American culinary editor, book reviewer, and cook. She was highly influential in editing and guiding two famous cookbooks to publication: Julia Child 's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and the US edition of the British food writer Elizabeth David 's Italian Food .
Feb 2, 2023 · Avis DeVoto played a crucial role in not just the life of chef Julia Child, but is largely responsible for the success of Child's cookbook on French cooking.
Dec 9, 2010 · Now comes “As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto,” a book for completists, the sort of pathetic losers who’d line up to buy a book of Child’s grocery lists, were it ...
Jan 1, 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 her deepest thoughts and feelings.
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Aug 15, 2012 · The rest of As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (published, by the way, by Houghton Mifflin), traces how the book concept went from shaky manuscript to cultural and ...
Mar 4, 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.
Dec 5, 2010 · DeVoto didn’t answer the letter himself, of course; that was left to his wife Avis. And for that we can be thankful because her gracious thank-you letter to Child led to a long correspondence...
