Julia Child of Strategic Services before was part-cooking instruction/part
Chef, TV personality volunteering for a research position performance art and the fan base
(1912-) Sri Lanka. While in Sri Lanka, reflected this combination as well.
Julia McWilliams met her future Quite simply everyone loved Julia
In 1961 Julia Child started a husband, Paul Child. From Paul, Child.
revolution in the meat-and-potatoes Julia learned not only the pleasure
kitchens of America with the of eating, she also learned of the Since her television debut she has
publication of her first book, pleasure of talking about eating. starred in eight television shows,
Mastering the Art of French The two were married upon their including “Baking with Julia,”
Cooking. Two years later, at the age return to the United States. “Cooking with Master Chefs,”
of 51, Julia Child took her message “Cooking in Concert,” and “In
to the television inviting both It was not until the couple moved to Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs.”
women and men into the kitchen. Paris for Paul’s job that Julia found She has also published 11 books.
her true calling. At the age of 37 She is also the founder of the
Born Julia McWilliams in Pasadena, Julia Child enrolled in Paris’ educational center, the American
California, Julia spent very little prestigious Cordon Bleu cooking Institute of Wine and Food.
time in the kitchen. Instead she school. While in Paris she met Without a doubt she is one of
preferred spending her time hurling Simone Beck and Louisette America’s most unique treasures
mud pies at passing cars, scaling Bertholle, and together the three and an inspiring model of a woman
fences, puffing on her father’s compiled and published the recipes who flourished in a notoriously
cigars, or participating in other found in Mastering the Art of sexist field.
mischievous activities. Also, Julia French Cooking.
was an athletic child, playing on her Some thoughts from Julia Child:
family’s backyard tennis court. At The couple returned to the US and
Smith College, Julia’s behavior Julia was invited to appear on “There are reasons, and then there
remained much the same, playing public television; the viewer are excuses.”
on the college’s basketball team and response was sensational. Julia - Julia Child
studying enough to get by. was then asked to shoot the pilot
for “The French Chef” which
During World War II, Julia held an eventually won an Emmy in 1965.
administrative position in the Office This original and inventive series
“The tomato hides its griefs. Some of Julia Child’s books
Internal damage is hard to spot.”
- Julia Child, Julia Child &
Company (1978)
include:
Julia Child & Company
Mastering the Art of French
Cooking
Julia
Child
“Noodles are not only amusing but The French Chef Cookbook
delicious.” From Julia Child’s Kitchen
- Julia Child, Julia Child & Julia Child and Company
Company (1978) The Way to Cook
Baking with Julia
“Some children like to make castles Julia’s Casual Dinners Chef, TV Personality
out of their rice pudding, or faces (1912-)
with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden, If you are interested in learning
so sternly that, when they grow up, more about Julia Child check these
they take horrid revenge by dying out:
meringues pale blue or baking Appetite for Life: The Biography of
birthday cake in the form of Julia Child by: Noel Riley Fitch
horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.” www.pbs.org/juliachild
- Julia Child, Julia Child & American Institute of Wine and
Company (1978) Food www.aiwf.org
“Fake food – I mean those patented
substances chemically flavored and
mechanically bulked out to kill the
appetite and deceive the gut – is
unnatural, almost immoral, a bane
to good eating and good cooking.” “Life itself is the proper binge.”
- Julia Child, Julia Child &
Company (1978)