How long does it take to read French Chef Cookbook, The?
French Chef Cookbook, The by Julia Child takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1968. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Her TV cooking shows, according to the Time magazine cover story, "have made her a cult from coast to coast and put her on a first-name basis with her fans.: No one is better equipped than she to shoulder the awesome responsibility of introducing America to French cuisine. Mrs. Child was trained at the famous Cordon Bleu school under Master Chef Max Bugnard. Together with two French women, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, Mrs. Child opened a cooking school, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes. In addition, the three of them spent seven years compiling Mastering the Art of French Cooking, plublished in 1961. All this plus her irresistible, down-to-earth personality make it clear why Julia Child's "The French Chef" is the most widely attended cooking course ever given in America.
Subjects: Cookery, French, French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking, french
