{"product_id":"food-and-friends-recipes-and-memories-from-simcas-cuisine-a-cookbook-9780140178173","title":"Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories from Simca's Cuisine: A Cookbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eView recipes from \u003ci\u003eFood and Friends\u003c\/i\u003e.The coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMastering the Art of French Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e shares an irresistible feast of reminiscence and recipes. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Simone \"Simca\" Beck first met Julia Child in 1949 in the women's cooking club Cercle des Gourmettes in Paris. Soon afterwards, the two began collaborating on what would become \u003ci\u003eMastering the Art of French Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During her extraordinary career, Simca was mentor and friend to a generation of cooks and food writers. In \u003ci\u003eFood and Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, she interweaves tantalizing recipes and menus with a wonderfully evocative account of her Normandy childhood, her madcap escapades in 1920s Paris, her work with Julia Child, and her friendships with James Beard, Craig Claiborne, M.F.K. Fisher, and Richard Olney, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimone Beck\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1904 at Tocqueville en Caux, Normandy. In 1933, she began to study at the Cordon Bleu, then the world's supreme school of cuisine. In 1948 she was approached by a friend, Louisette Bertholle (now Comtesse de Nal?che), to collaborate on a French cookbook for Americans. In 1951, at the suggestion of her husband, they began to search for an American to help them, and a friend introduced Simca to Julia Child, then studying cooking in Paris. Soon afterward, the three women formed a cooking school, L'?cole des Trois Gourmandes, and began the collaboration that produced the several volumes of \u003ci\u003eMastering the Art of French Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844044525842,"sku":"9780140178173","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25f1d5bc-151d-4430-bc2e-6f4e92cac4fd.jpg?v=1737308420","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/food-and-friends-recipes-and-memories-from-simcas-cuisine-a-cookbook-9780140178173","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}