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  Julia Child Biography
Julia Child is a creative genius who changed the culinary world with her energetic personality and fine cooking skills.
Julia was very tall for a woman and it is not surprising that she had the appetite of a horse.
Julia was not considered the typical "feminine" of the day because she was tall and a tomboy.
topchefs.chef2chef.net /recipes-2/child/biography.htm   (2015 words)

  
 CNN.com - Julia Child dead at 91 - Aug 13, 2004
Julia Child brought the intricacies of French cuisine to American home cooks through her television series and books.
Child was born in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912, to an upper-middle-class family that employed a cook.
Her last public television series paired Child with her old friend and collaborator Jacques Pepin for "Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home." The resulting book was both a conversation between old friends as well as a compendium of recipes and techniques for preparing some of the greatest dishes in French cuisine.
www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/13/obit.child/index.html   (791 words)

  
 MOAA: Julia Child - Cooking Up Intrigue
Julia and the other OSS staff would finish their day at 5 o'clock, "usually near some gin." In Kandy, many journalists, celebrities, and friends of friends would arrive, often expecting to be entertained.
Julia cultivated her growing interest in cooking by enrolling in the Cordon Bleu cooking school, where her strength, good humor, and willingness to work hard were noted by her instructors.
At age 90, Julia remains happy to give her theories on the approach to healthy and happy eating, "Eat half portions and try everything in moderation, concentrating on quality, not quantity." A culinary lion and an intrepid OSS file clerk, Julia makes a compelling case for living life to its fullest.
www.moaa.org /magazine/January2003/f_juliachild.asp   (2548 words)

  
 Ms. Magazine | From the Archives
Julia Child lives in a bucolic Spanish-style retirement community in Santa Barbara, Calif, a half mile from the beach.
Julia is temporarily in a wheelchair, recovering from knee surgery, but sits tall and erect, with the perfect posture of a dancer-- totally unlike the hunched-- over cooking stance we've seen on television.
Julia Child became the first woman on public television, and she captivated 50 million viewers.
www.msmagazine.com /june03/smilgis.asp   (1416 words)

  
 Julia Child
Julia Child remembers it well: sole poached in white wine and draped in a cream sauce, with oysters on the side, nestled in their half shells.
Child, nee Julia McWilliams from Pasadena, California, was not born with a whisk in her hand.
Child's awe-inspiring luncheon sent her straight to the Cordon Bleu-the world-renowned school of French cooking-for six months of training, after which she studied privately with one of Europe's premier chefs.
www.grandtimes.com /child.html   (1574 words)

  
 Julia Child: bon appétit - TELEVISION - MSNBC.com
Julia Child, the celebrated cook, author and television personality who elevated the nation's culinary standards, died in her sleep early Friday morning at an assisted living home in Montecito, Calif. She was 91.
Child's appearance to promote the book in 1962 at the Boston public television station drew such positive responses that the station offered her a 13-week series.
Julia Child was not the first television cook, but she was the most widely seen and attracted the broadest audience, "from professors to policemen," as TV Guide put it at the time.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3694953   (1952 words)

  
 Borzoi Reader | Authors | Julia Child
Julia Child's kitchen has been packed up and shipped to Washington, D.C., where it will be re-created as an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution.
She was the wife of the historian and writer Bernard de Voto, who had had a lively transatlantic correspondence with Julia on the subject of knives as a result of a piece he had done in The Atlantic Monthly.
Avis soon became involved when she heard that Julia was working on a cookbook in Paris with Mesdames Beck and Bertholle, and she offered to try to find an American publisher.
www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/child/making.html   (1577 words)

  
 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Julia Child
Julia and Paul eventually returned to the States, and after a television interview at WGBH, Boston, the station asked Julia to try out a series of TV cooking shows, and The French Chef was born on February 11, 1963.
Child is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and a cofounder of the American Institute of Wine and Food.
Child loves to use butter and cream in her recipes, bucking the national trend for low-fat, healthy living.
www.medaloffreedom.com /JuliaChild.htm   (1212 words)

  
 Baking With Julia - Biography
Author and Teacher, Cambridge, MA Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California, and graduated from Smith College in the class of 1934.
Julia Child has been interviewed and written about in numerous publications, and appears regularly on "Good Morning America", and has also appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman", "The Late Show with Johnny Carson" and "Live with Regis and Kathy Lee".
Child is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and a co-founder of the American Institute of Wine and Food.
www.mpt.org /programsinterests/mpt/julia/juliabio.shtml   (619 words)

  
 NMAH | What's Cooking
In November 2001, when Julia Child left her Massachusetts home of forty-two years to return to her native California, she gave her kitchen to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Behring Center.
Child's late husband, Paul, designed the kitchen for her in 1961, and there she cooked for herself, for family and friends, for professional colleagues -- and for the entire country.
Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian to take an interactive tour of the kitchen, view a sampling of kitchen implements, and hear more stories about Julia.
americanhistory.si.edu /kitchen/index.htm   (239 words)

  
 Julia Child, Gift Basket, Gourmet Baskets, Gift Basket and San Francisco, John Boos, gourmet food, gifts
Julia Child was born Julia McWilliams in Pasadena, California and graduated from Smith College in 1934.
Julia Child and "The French Chef" went on the air February 11, 1963, and her cooking shows have been aired and repeated without interruption ever since.
Julia Child was the first TV personality to win an "Emmy." "In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs" received both an Emmy Award and a "Best Television Cooking Show" award from the James Beard Foundation.
www.beyondgourmet.com /food/julia.html   (553 words)

  
 Julia Child
“Julia Child Invented Modern Life,” declared U.S.News and World Report in a cover story September 1997, “she made America mad for food and changed notions of class and gender.” Her image is familiar in every household, her voice imitated on television (“Saturday Night Live”) and radio (“Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion”).
With her Mastering, Julia Child revolutionized the cookbook industry in the US: henceforth recipes had to be honest and precise, detailed and scientific.
Child did not debut on television for the first time until she was past 50, and her first book was published when she was 49.
www.sallys-place.com /food/book_reviews/julia_child.htm   (1240 words)

  
 Taste: Julia Child ages, but she never gets old
We who have watched Julia Child chortle as she cooked for four decades knew she would wear purple when she grew old.
Child, who started out as "The French Chef" in 1963, and Pepin, a genuine French chef who arrived in the United States in 1959, share the kitchen like two generations of a loving family.
Child dons a firefighter's helmet and stands by with a fire extinguisher when Pepin flambees; Pepin wears a toga for Julia's Caesar salad.
www.sptimes.com /News/92399/Taste/Julia_Child_ages__but.shtml   (1367 words)

  
 WGBH Remembering Julia Child
Master chef and TV personality Julia Child died in her sleep in Santa Barbara, Calif., two days before what would have been her 92nd birthday.
Julia Child was born Julia McWilliams in Pasadena, Calif. In 1934 she graduated from Smith College, and when World War II broke out, she joined the Office of Strategic Services.
Julia received numerous awards during her career, including the George Foster Peabody Award (1965) for "distinguished achievement in television," and in 1966 was the first public television personality to win an Emmy.
www.wgbh.org /generic/remembering_julia_child   (545 words)

  
 The New York Times > Dining & Wine >
Julia Child preparing lobster rolls for lunch at her home in Cambridge, Mass., in July of 2001.
Julia Child, whose warbling, encouraging voice and able hands brought the intricacies of French cuisine to American home cooks through her television series and books, died in her sleep three days before what would have been her 92nd birthday.
Julia Child talked about her move from her Victorian house in Cambridge, Mass., to a retirement community in California and fed a reporter a tuna sandwhich.
www.nytimes.com /ref/dining/CHILD-REF.html   (336 words)

  
 Julia Child - Biography - World Culinary Institute
Julia Child was born in Pasadena, Calif., and graduated from Smith College in 1934.
It was in Paris that Julia began her culinary career at the Cordon Bleu.
Julia Child is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, which, reflecting her years of involvement, gives an annual Julia Child cookbook award.
worldculinaryinstitute.com /julia_child.html   (292 words)

  
 NPR : Julia Child's Kitchen on Display
An undated photo of Julia Child in her former kitchen in Cambridge, Mass., where three of her many television series were taped.
Julia Child is featured in a National Women's History Museum exhibit on women spies, featured in an April 4, 2002 report on Morning Edition.
Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian has many behind-the-scenes photos of the moving process and audio files of Child talking about her memories cooking there.
www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/aug/juliachild   (606 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Cooks & Cookbooks - Julia Child (The French Chef)
Child severed an artery with a sharp knife and still continued to cook amidst a shower of blood spraying about the kitchen set.
In 2001, Julia Child donated the 14-by-20-foot kitchen from her Cambridge, Massachusetts home (and its 1,200 items) to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
Born Julia Carolyn McWilliams on August 15 1912 in Pasadena, California, Julia Child died in her sleep from kidney failure at 2:50 a.m.
www.tvacres.com /cooks_frenchchef.htm   (449 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Julia Child fully enjoyed the banquet of life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Julia Child once declared that "life itself is the proper binge," and for nearly a century she was insatiable.
Child died in her sleep early Friday, two days shy of her 92nd birthday, at an assisted-living home in Montecito, Calif., where she maintained a small garden of fig and tangerine trees, tomato plants and berry vines.
After meeting foreign service officer Paul Child, she learned to enjoy the pleasures of the table while they were stationed in Paris.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-08-15-child-banquet-of-life_x.htm   (560 words)

  
 Jacques Pépin & Julia Child Chef Profile at Epicurious.com
Julia Child and Jacques Pépin have been collaborating as cookbook authors and television cohosts for more than a decade.
Julia felt like eating Salade Composée for lunch, so we opened jars of tuna and olives, snapped stems off fresh string beans, and got to work on these three extra dishes.
Julia recounted the first time she ate the Caesar salad that we made that day.
www.epicurious.com /features/chefs/pepin_child/jacques_julia   (653 words)

  
 Celebrated chef Julia Child dies at age 91 - TELEVISION - MSNBC.com
In an A-line skirt and blouse, and an apron with a dish towel tucked into the waist, Julia Child grew familiar enough to be parodied by Dan Aykroyd on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and the subject of Jean Stapleton’s musical revue, “Bon Appetit.” She was on the cover of Time magazine in 1966.
Child enrolled in the famed Cordon Bleu cooking school, motivated at least in part by a desire to cook for her epicure husband.
Paul Child died in 1994, and in late 2001, Julia Child, a longtime resident of Cambridge, Mass., moved to Santa Barbara.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5695962   (1278 words)

  
 Julia Child Biography (Chef/TV Personality) — Infoplease.com
Child authored several books and won numerous awards around the world, and is often credited with having improved American culinary habits.
Julia Child - Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b.
Julia Child - Julia Child (Julia McWilliams) chef and PBS personality Born: 8/15/1912 Birthplace: Pasadena,...
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/juliachild.html   (255 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One: Books: Julia Child,Louisette Bertholle,Simone Beck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Child rose to a position with the authority that gave her the cachet to do these shows in the first place.
To be fair, Julia Child originated a majority of the culinary content and contributed almost all of the grunt work with her editors and publisher to get the book published.
Child was not necessarily teaching `haute cuisine', she was teaching what has been named `la cuisine Bourgeoise' or the cooking of the housewife and, to some extent, the cooking of the bistro and brasserie, not the one or two or three star restaurant.
www.amazon.com /Mastering-Art-French-Cooking-One/dp/0375413405   (2255 words)

  
 The Cookbook Store: Chefs: Julia Child
Julia Child, the culinary touchstone for so many of us, died in her sleep on Thursday, August 12th, 2004 three days before her 92nd birthday.
No matter how long the lineup, Julia was always willing to pose for a picture with anyone bearing her books.
In her newly published memoir, Julia Child traces her love affair with everything French, particularly the food, from that day in November, 1948 through the labour of love that became Mastering the Art of French Cooking to her final visit in June, 1992.
www.cook-book.com /chefs/julia_child.html   (613 words)

  
 Amazon.com: From Julia Child's Kitchen: Books: Julia Child   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
So, even though Julia Child, throughout all her books, gives us very detailed recipes, she is all in favor of internalizing cooking principles and striking off on one's own.
Julia recommends the first (most famously advocated by Mark Bittman) and refers to the second method as `coddling', although the two methods produce virtually identical results, except that the second method takes a bit longer.
Julia does not cover every possible egg dish, and yet for those she does cover, she does a better job than any other I have read, including those found in `the good egg', a book by Marie Simmons, dedicated entirely to the egg cookery.
www.amazon.com /Julia-Childs-Kitchen-Child/dp/0517207125   (2261 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: From J.Child's Kitchen: Books: Julia Child   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Julia is who she is for a good reason.
Julia has written many a cookbook (even Baking With Julia, though written by Dorie Greenspan, still has Julia's spirit in it apart from the TV connection), and most all are great, but this is the one Julia book every serious chef should own.
As a child I enjoyed watching Julia Child on TV and as I read From Julia Child's Kitchen it's in her own voice that I am hearing her words.
www.amazon.ca /J-Childs-Kitchen-Julia-Child/dp/0394710274   (940 words)

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