it comes from her great nephew, alex prudhomme. o-wrote with child the book "my life in france" which, among other things, documents her early years, her passion for french cooking and her struggle to get published. alex, welcome. >> thanks. >> brown: i wanted to start with those years in france that you and she wrote about because that's really where she discovered herself, right? >> it's true. before paul took her to france in 1948, julia hadn't traveled much at all. she'd been to mexico. and although she studied french her whole academic career, she said to me she could never really speak french until she arrived november 3, 1948. paul was in the diplomatic service. he brought her over to france and they stepped off the boat and drove to paris and along the way they stopped at the famous medieval town and had lunch at ruon and her first french meal was a seoul and she described it to me as an opening of the soul. it's where she discovered true passion and the male that changed her life and arguably american cooking. >> brown: now