Celebrate the Julia Child centennial cooking up some French cuisine or reading a dishy biography. Bon appetit!

Appetite for life: the biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch

As always, Julia: the letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: food, friendship, and the making of a masterpiece by selected and edited by Joan Reardon

A covert affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS by Jennet Conant