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Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbookMastering the Art of French Cookingand her television showThe French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself.
But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julias unforgettable storystruggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globeunfolds with the spirit so key to Julias success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of Americas most endearing personalities.
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Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II; afterward she lived in Paris, studied at the Cordon Bleu, and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume ofMastering the Art of French Cooking(1961). In 1963, Bostons WGBH launchedThe French Cheftelevision series, which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Several public television shows and numerous cookbooks followed. She died in 2004. Alex Prud’hommeis Julia Child’s great-nephew and the coauthor of her autobiography,My Life in France,which was adapted into the movieJulie & Julia.Prud’homme’s journalism has appeared inThe New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time,andPeople. |
