Julia Child (August 15, 1912–August 13, 2004) was a famous American cook, author, and television personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and, showcasing her sui generis television persona, the series The French Chef, which premiered in 1963. Julia Child This work is copyrighted. ... For the TV series character, see The Fast Show. ... is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Coordinates: , County Government  - Mayor Marty Blum Area  - City 111. ... is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A cook is a person that prepares food for consumption. ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ... French cuisine is considered to be one of the worlds most refined and elegant styles of cooking. ... A cookbook is a book that contains information on cooking, and a list of recipes. ... Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the result of a collaboration between American Julia Child and Frenchwomen Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle and the impetus for Childs long and successful career as one of the pioneering television chefs. ... Sui generis is a (post) Latin expression, literally meaning a scholar like what pradeep is or unique in its characteristics. ... The French Chef was an influential early television cooking show by Julia Child, broadcast by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts from 1963-1973. ...

Youth and World War II

Born Julia Carolyn McWilliams to John and Julia Carolyn ("Caro") McWilliams in the wealthy community of Pasadena, California, she grew up eating traditional New England food prepared by the family maid. She attended Polytechnic School from fourth grade to ninth grade and then The Branson School in Ross, California. After graduating in 1934 from Smith College—where at six feet, two inches (1.88 m) tall she played basketball—with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, she moved to New York City and worked as a copywriter for the advertising department of upscale home-furnishing firm W. & J. Sloane. After returning to California in 1937, shortly before her mother died, she spent four years at home, writing for local publications and briefly working in advertising again. Civic-minded, she volunteered with the American Red Cross and, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after being turned down by the United States Navy for being too tall. Julia Carolyn McWilliams maiden name of American cookbook author Julia Child also her mother was Julia Carolyn McWilliams, born Julia Carolyn Weston; she is also notable for being the first American woman to get a drivers license. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... The American lobster, a favorite ingredient in New England cuisine. ... Polytechnic Upper School Polytechnic School, often referred to as Poly, is a college preparatory private school in Pasadena, California. ... The Branson School is an independent college preparatory high school in Ross, California. ... Ross is a small town in Marin County, California United States, just north of San Francisco. ... Smith College is a private, independent womens liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. ... A B.A. issued from the University of Tennessee. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A copywriter is a person who writes text, or copy, for clients. ... “Advert” redirects here. ... W. & J. Sloane is a retail magazine featuring furniture and household decoration items (rugs, etc), many imported from exotic locations. ... A WWII-era poster encouraged American women to volunteer for the Red Cross as part of the war effort. ... This article is about the harbor in Hawaii. ... The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency and was the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Special Forces, and Navy SEALs. ... USN redirects here. ...

For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section in Washington, D.C., where she was a file clerk and also helped in the development of a shark repellent. In 1944 she was posted to Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where she met her future husband, a high-ranking OSS cartographer, and later to China, where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat. For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... A shark repellent is any method of driving sharks away from an area, object, person, or animal. ... The Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy Kandy (මහනුවර/ සෙංකඩගල in Sinhala, கண்டி in Tamil) is the name used by British invaders for the city of Senkadagala (Mahanuwara) in the centre of Sri Lanka. ...

Following the war, she lived in Washington, D.C., where she was married on September 1, 1946 to Paul Cushing Child, a man known for his sophisticated palate^[1] who came from a prominent Boston family and who had lived in Paris as an artist and poet. He joined the United States Foreign Service and also introduced his wife to fine cuisine. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the U.S. State Department assigned Paul Child as an exhibits officer with the United States Information Agency in Paris, France. The couple never had children. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Boston” redirects here. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... The United States Foreign Service represents the United States to the world. ... “Department of State” redirects here. ... The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to what it called public diplomacy. ...

Post-war France

Child repeatedly recalled her first meal in Rouen of oysters, sole meunière, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described the experience once in The New York Times newspaper as "an opening up of the soul and spirit for me". In Paris, she attended the famous Le Cordon Bleu cooking school and later studied privately with master chefs like Max Bugnard. She joined the women's cooking club Cercle des Gourmettes where she met Simone Beck who, with her friend Louisette Bertholle, was writing a French cookbook for Americans and proposed that Mrs. Child work with them to make it appeal to Americans. Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also ) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région. ... For other uses, see Oyster (disambiguation). ... About Sole Meunière Sole Meunière is a classic French dish consisting of a filet of sole served with a brown butter sauce and lemon. ... For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation). ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... The Cordon Bleu school in Ottawa, Canada Le Cordon Bleu (French for blue ribbon) is an international group of cooking schools teaching French cuisine. ... Simone Beck, known as Simca Beck, with Julia Child, introduced American culture to French foods by way of the cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vols 1-2. ...

In 1951, they began to teach cooking to American women in the Childs' kitchen, calling their informal school L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes (The School of the Three Gourmands). For the next decade as the Childs moved around Europe and finally to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the three researched and repeatedly tested recipes and Child translated the French into English, making the recipes detailed, interesting, and practical. Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1630 Incorporated 1636 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Kenneth Reeves (D) Area  - City  7. ...

Fame, books, and television series

The three would-be authors initially signed a contract with publisher Houghton Mifflin, which later rejected the manuscript for being too much like an encyclopedia. Finally, when it was first published in 1961 by Alfred A. Knopf, the 734-page Mastering the Art of French Cooking was a best-seller and received critical acclaim that derived in part from the American interest in French culture in the early 1960s. Lauded for its helpful illustrations, precise attention to detail, and for making fine cuisine accessible to the masses, the book is still in print and is considered a seminal culinary work. Following this success, Child wrote magazine articles and a regular column for The Boston Globe newspaper. Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. ... Colophon of the publisher Alfred A. Knopf. ... Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the result of a collaboration between American Julia Child and Frenchwomen Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle and the impetus for Childs long and successful career as one of the pioneering television chefs. ... The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and New England. ...

Julia Child on the November 25, 1966 cover of Time magazine

A 1962 appearance on a book review show on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station of Boston, WGBH, led to the inception of her television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to cook an omelette. The French Chef debuted February 11, 1963 on WGBH and was immediately successful. The show ran nationally for ten years and won Peabody and Emmy Awards, including the very first Emmy award for an Educational program. Though she was not the first television cook, Child was the most widely seen. Her primary "competitor" for viewers was the British "Galloping Gourmet", another successful cooking show of the time.^{[citation needed]} She attracted the broadest audience with her cheery enthusiasm, distinctively charming warbly voice, and unpatronising and unaffected manner. Image File history File links Julia_Child_Time_Cover. ... Image File history File links Julia_Child_Time_Cover. ... “TIME” redirects here. ... A book review (or book report) is a form of literary criticism in which the work is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. ... “PBS” redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into articles entitled WGBH-TV, WGBH (FM) and WGBX-TV, accessible from a disambiguation page. ... An omelette Ham, cheese, and vegetable omelette served with fresh fruit. ... The French Chef was an influential early television cooking show by Julia Child, broadcast by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts from 1963-1973. ... is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. ... An Emmy Award. ... Graham Kerr (born May 18, 1934 in London) is a famous cooking personality who gained fame through his cooking show The Galloping Gourmet. ...

Child's second book, The French Chef Cookbook, was a collection of the recipes she had demonstrated on the show. It was soon followed in 1971 by Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two, again in collaboration with Simone Beck, but not with Louisette Bertholle, with whom they had ended their partnership. Child's fourth book, From Julia Child's Kitchen, was illustrated with her husband's photographs.

In the 1970s and 1980s, she was the star of numerous television programs, including Julia Child & Company and Dinner at Julia's. She starred in four more series in the 1990s that featured guest chefs: Cooking with Master Chefs, In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, Baking with Julia, and Julia Child & Jacques Pépin Cooking at Home. She collaborated with Jacques Pépin many times for television programs and cookbooks. All of Child's books during this time stemmed from the television series of the same names. In the 1990s, Microsoft introduced a software package called Julia Child: Home Cooking with Master Chefs as part of their Microsoft Home product line. Jacques Pépin (born December 18, 1935) is a French chef working in the United States. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Logo Microsoft Home was a line of software applications and personal hardware products published by Microsoft Corporation. ...

Child was a favorite of audiences from the moment of her television debut on public television in 1963 and her personage – a striking hybrid of gravitas and camp – was a familiar part of American culture and the subject of numerous references. In 1966, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine with the heading, "Our Lady of the Ladle". In a 1978 Saturday Night Live sketch, she was affectionately parodied by Dan Aykroyd, continuing with a cooking show despite profuse bleeding from a cut to the thumb. Jean Stapleton portrayed her in a 1989 musical, Bon Appétit!, based on one of her televised cooking lessons. She was also the inspiration for a character, "Julia Grownup", on the Children's Television Workshop program, The Electric Company (1971-1977) and was portrayed or parodied in many other television programs and skits. Her voice was often parodied, in a loving manner, on Garrison Keillor's public radio series A Prairie Home Companion by the voice actor Tim Russell. Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. ... “TIME” redirects here. ... This article is about the American television series. ... Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. ... Jean Stapleton Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray on January 19, 1923 in New York City) is an American actress of stage, television and film. ... Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Childrens Television Workshop (or CTW), is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational childrens programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world (including PBS in the United States), as well as Noggin, a joint venture with Viacom... The Electric Company was an educational American childrens television series produced by the Childrens Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States. ... Garrison Keillor (born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7, 1942) is an American author, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... This article is about the radio show. ... Tim Russell is a radio announcer and voice actor ( AFTRA/ SAG) in Minneapolis and St. ...

In 1981, she founded the educational American Institute of Wine and Food in Napa, California with vintners Robert Mondavi and Richard Graff to "advance the understanding, appreciation and quality of wine and food", a pursuit she had already begun with her books and television appearances. The entrance of Robert Mondavi Winery. ... Richard Graff was one of the pioneers of modern California winemaking. ...

Retirement

Her husband, Paul, who was ten years older, died in 1994 after living in a nursing home for five years following a series of strokes in 1989.

In 2001, she moved to a retirement community in Santa Barbara, California, donating her house and office to Smith College. She donated her kitchen [5], which her husband designed with high counters to accommodate her diminished but still formidable height, and which served as the set for three of her television series, to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, where it is now on display in Washington, D.C. Retirement is the point where a person stops employment. ... Nickname: Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Coordinates: , County Government  - Mayor Marty Blum Area  - City 111. ... Smith College is a private, independent womens liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. ... The National Museum of American History is a museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution and located on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology. ...

She received the French Legion of Honor in 2000^{[2] [3]} and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003. Child also received honorary doctorates from Harvard University, her alma mater Smith College, and several other universities. French Legion of Honor The Légion dhonneur (in Legion of Honor (AmE) or Legion of Honour (ComE)) is an Order of Chivalry awarded by the President of France. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States (the other award which is considered its equivalent is the Congressional Gold Medal, which is bestowed by an... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Smith College is a private, independent womens liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. ...

On August 13, 2004, Child died peacefully in her sleep of kidney failure at her home in Santa Barbara. Her final meal was French onion soup.^[4] is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Renal failure is the condition in which the kidneys fail to function properly. ... A bowl of French onion soup. ...

On August 18, 2004, a documentary filmed during her lifetime premiered. The 1 hour feature, Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef, was aired as the first episode of the 18th season of the PBS series American Masters. The film only featured archive footage of Julia, but had current footage from many of the people who influenced (and were influenced by) her life and work. The film was produced by WGBH, the Boston public television station. Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef imdb listing is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on what it considers are the best artists, actors and writers of the United States. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into articles entitled WGBH-TV, WGBH (FM) and WGBX-TV, accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

Trivia

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- Heathcliff Huxtable, a main character on The Cosby Show, is known to frequently portray Julia Child while he is cooking on the show. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...

Public works

Television Series

• The French Chef (1963–1973)
• Julia Child & Company (1978–1979)
• Julia Child & More Company (1980–1982)
• Dinner at Julia's (1983–?)
• The Way to Cook (1989) 6 one-hour videocassettes
• A Birthday Party for Julia Child: Compliments to the Chef (1992)
• Cooking with Master Chefs: Hosted by Julia Child (1993–1994) 16 episodes
• Cooking In Concert: Julia Child & Jacques Pepin (1993)
• In Julia's Kitchen (1994–1996), 39 episodes
• Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home (1999–2000) 22 episodes
• Baking with Julia (1996–1998) 39 episodes
• Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom, (2000) two-hour special

The French Chef was an influential early television cooking show by Julia Child, broadcast by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts from 1963-1973. ...

Books

• Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961), with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle — ISBN 0-375-41340-5
• Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two (1970), with Simone Beck — ISBN 0-394-40152-2
• The French Chef Cookbook (1968) — ISBN 0-394-40135-2
• From Julia Child's Kitchen (1975) — ISBN 0-517-20712-5
• Julia Child & Company (1978) — ISBN 0-345-31449-2
• Julia Child & More Company (1979) — ISBN 0-345-31450-6
• The Way to Cook (1989) — ISBN 0-394-53264-3
• Julia Child's Menu Cookbook (1991), one-volume edition of Julia Child & Company and Julia Child & More Company — ISBN 0-517-06485-5
• Cooking With Master Chefs (1993) — ISBN 0-679-74829-6
• In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs (1995) — ISBN 0-679-43896-3
• Baking with Julia (1996) — ISBN 0-688-14657-0
• Julia's Delicious Little Dinners (1998) — ISBN 0-375-40336-1
• Julia's Menus For Special Occasions (1998) — ISBN 0-375-40338-8
• Julia's Breakfasts, Lunches & Suppers (1999) — ISBN 0-375-40339-6
• Julia's Casual Dinners (1999) — ISBN 0-375-40337-X
• Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home (1999), with Jacques Pépin — ISBN 0-375-40431-7
• Julia's Kitchen Wisdom (2000) — ISBN 0-375-41151-8
• My Life in France (2006, posthumous), with Alex Prud'homme — ISBN 1-4000-4346-8
• (collected in) American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007) ISBN 1598530054

Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the result of a collaboration between American Julia Child and Frenchwomen Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle and the impetus for Childs long and successful career as one of the pioneering television chefs. ... Simone Beck, known as Simca Beck, with Julia Child, introduced American culture to French foods by way of the cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vols 1-2. ... Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the result of a collaboration between American Julia Child and Frenchwomen Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle and the impetus for Childs long and successful career as one of the pioneering television chefs. ... Simone Beck, known as Simca Beck, with Julia Child, introduced American culture to French foods by way of the cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vols 1-2. ... Jacques Pépin (born December 18, 1935) is a French chef working in the United States. ... Julias Kitchen Wisdom is a book of cooking principles, first published in 2000, that was inspired by the notebook of the famous cook Julia Child. ... My Life in France is a 2006 autobiography by Julia Child. ... Volumes in the Library of America series The Library of America (LoA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. ...

Notes

1. ^ Lindman, Sylvia. MSNBC: "Julia Child: bon appétit". Retrieved September 30, 2006 from [1].
2. ^ Goldberg, Carey. "For a Cooking Legend, the Ultimate Dinner Was Served". The New York Times, November 25, 2000. Retrieved November 12, 2006 from [2].
3. ^ Encylcopædia Britannica Profile: "Julia Child". Retrieved November 13, 2006 from [3]
4. ^ Sietsema, Tom. "The Special Spice of Julia's Kitchen". Washington Post August 14, 2004, C01. Retrieved November 6, 2006 from [4].

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External links

• Julia Child: Lessons with Master Chefs from PBS
• Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
• American television interview with Julia Child on June 25, 1999, at Google Video
• Coverage of Julia Child in The New York Times
• Interview in Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
• Example obituary, in the San Francisco Chronicle