Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated from
Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II in Ceylon
and China, where she met Paul Child. After they were married they
lived in Paris, where Ms. Child studied at the Cordon Bleu and
taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom
she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking
(1961).
In 1963 Boston’s WGBH launched The French Chef television series,
which made Julia Child a national celebrity, earning her the
Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Her subsequent public
television shows—Julia Child & Company (1978), Julia Child & More
Company (1980), Cooking with Master Chefs (1993), In Julia’s
Kitchen with Master Chefs (1995), Baking with Julia (1996), and her
one-on-one collaboration with Jacques Pépin, Julia and Jacques
Cooking at Home (1999)—were all accompanied by books of the same
names. The Way to Cook, her magnum opus, was published in 1989, and
in 2000 she gave us Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom, a distillation of her
years of cooking experience. Her memoir, My Life in France, was
published posthumously in 2006. She died in 2004.
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