Alex Prud’homme is Julia Child’s grandnephew, and together they wrote the incredibly charming My Life in France, which tells the story of Julia arriving in France as a boisterous, awkward American girl, falling in love with the French approach to food, learning to cook, writing Mastering the Art of French Cooking… It’s a really great little memoir and it will make you wish Julia Child was your best friend (instead of um, dead).

On a related note, Judith Jones’ memoir, The Tenth Muse, gets a write up in the Book Review this week. Jones was yet another American girl to make good in Paris, who, as a young editorial assistant, famously persuaded her boss to recommend the publication of Anne Frank’s diary. Similarly, Jones saw the potential in Child’s book, pushing for its publication at Knopf even after several other houses had rejected it. She went on to edit cookbooks from James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Madhur Jaffrey, and more.

Alex Prud’homme, 7:30 pm, City o’ Books on Burnside