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Julia Child

Julia Child holds up a monkfish on her television show Julia Child and Company in 1979
Born August 15, 1912(1912-08-15)
Pasadena, California, United States
Died August 13, 2004 (aged 91)
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Cooking style French
Television show(s)

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. Monkfish is the English name of a number of types of fish in the northwest Atlantic most notably the species of the anglerfish genus Lophius and the angelshark Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County California, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " A cook is a person that prepares Food for consumption A cook is sometimes referred to as a Chef, although within the professional kitchen the terms are not exchangeable An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic French cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation of France. A cookbook is a Book that contains information on Cooking, and/or a list of Recipes It may also contain information on ingredient origin freshness 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. Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French Cookbook written by the American Julia Child and the Frenchwomen Simone The French Chef was an influential early television Cooking show created by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH in Boston

Contents

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. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. New England cuisine is a type of American cuisine found in New England, in the northeastern region of the United States. She attended Polytechnic School from fourth grade to ninth grade and then The Branson School in Ross, California. Ross is a small incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States, just north of After graduating in 1934 from Smith College—where at six feet, two inches (1. Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton Massachusetts. 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. The City of New York Copywriting is the use of words to promote a Person, Business, Opinion, or Idea. Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand W & J Sloane was a famous Furniture and Rug store in New York City that catered to the wealthy 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. The American Red Cross (also known as the American National Red Cross) is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance disaster relief and education inside Pearl Harbor is a Harbor on the Island of O{{okina}}ahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II.

She started out at OSS Headquarters in Washington, working directly for General William J. Donovan, the leader of OSS. "Wild Bill Donovan" redirects here For the Baseball Pitcher and manager see William Edward Donovan. Working as a research assistant in the Secret Intelligence division, Julia typed up thousands of names on white note cards used to keep track of officers.

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 to ensure that sharks would not explode ordinance targeting German U-boats. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D A shark repellent is any method of driving sharks away from an area object person or animal 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. Kandy ( maha nuvara, mahaˈnuərə in Sinhala, கண்டி kaṇṭi, ˈkaɳɖi in Tamil) is the English name for the city of Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National [1]

Following the war, she lived in Washington, D. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including C. , where she was married on September 1, 1946 to Paul Cushing Child, a man known for his sophisticated palate[2] who came from a prominent Boston family and who had lived in Paris as an artist and poet. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city He joined the United States Foreign Service and also introduced his wife to fine cuisine. The United States Foreign Service is the diplomatic service of the United States government under the aegis of the Department of State. 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 United States Information Agency ( USIA) which existed from 1953 to 1999 was a United States agency devoted to Public diplomacy. The couple had no children.

Post-war France

Child repeatedly recalled her first meal in Rouen of oysters, sole meunière, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. Rouen (ʁwɑ̃ in French) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital The common name oyster is used for a number of different groups of Bivalve Mollusks most of which live in marine habitats or Brackish water. Sole Meunière is a classic French dish consisting of a filet of sole served with a brown butter sauce and lemon Wine is an Alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of Grape juice 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. Le Cordon Bleu ( French for " Blue ribbon " is the world's largest hospitality education institution with over 22000 students and a presence in 20 countries 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. Simone "Simca" Beck ( 7 July 1904 in Normandy, France - 20 December 1991) was a French cookbook author and cooking teacher Child work with them to make it appeal to Americans.

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. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States.

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. Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational Publisher in the United States. 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. Alfred A Knopf Inc is a New York publishing house founded by Alfred A Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French Cookbook written by the American Julia Child and the Frenchwomen Simone 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. The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily Newspaper in Boston and in New England,

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. For book reviews in academia see also Academic Journal - Book reviews For the Looney Tunes cartoon see Book Revue. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the For the radio station specifically see WGBH (FM. WGBH is a non-commercial Television and Radio broadcast service located in Boston An omelette is a preparation of beaten egg cooked with Butter or oil in a Frying pan, usually folded around a filling such as The French Chef debuted February 11, 1963 on WGBH and was immediately successful. The French Chef was an influential early television Cooking show created by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH in Boston Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The show ran nationally for ten years and won Peabody and Emmy Awards, including the very first Emmy award for an Educational program. The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards for excellence in Radio and Television broadcasting 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. Graham Kerr (born January 22, 1934 in London) is a cooking personality who gained fame through his cooking show The Galloping Gourmet. She attracted the broadest audience with her cheery enthusiasm, distinctively charming warbly voice, and unpatronising and unaffected manner.

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. Jacques Pépin (born December 18 1935) is a French Chef working in the United States. All of Child's books during this time stemmed from the television series of the same names.

Beginning with In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, the Childs' home kitchen in Cambridge was fully transformed into a functional set, with TV-quality lights, three cameras positioned to catch all angles in the room, a massive center island with a gas stovetop on one side and an electric stovetop on the other, but leaving the rest of the Childs' appliances alone, including "my wall oven with its squeaking door. "[3] This kitchen-turned-TV-backdrop hosted nearly all of Mrs. Child's 90's era TV series.

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". Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and 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. Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award -nominated and Emmy Award -winning Canadian-American Jean Stapleton portrayed her in a 1989 musical, Bon Appétit!, based on one of her televised cooking lessons, the title based on her famous sign-off from her televised cooking shows: "This is Julia Child. Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray on January 19, 1923 in New York City New York) is an American character actress Bon appétit!". She was also the inspiration for the character "Julia Grownup" on the Children's Television Workshop program, The Electric Company (1971-1977), and was portrayed or parodied in many other television and radio programs and skits, including The Cosby Show (1984-1992) by character Heathcliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and Garrison Keillor's radio series A Prairie Home Companion by voice actor Tim Russell. Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW) is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's The Electric Company is an educational American Children's television series which was produced by the Children's Television Workshop The Cosby Show is an American television Situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 William Henry Cosby Jr (born July 12 1937 is an American Comedian, Actor, Author, Television producer and Activist. Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American Author, Storyteller, Humorist, A Prairie Home Companion is a live Radio Variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. Tim Russell (born 1947) is an American 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. Robert Gerald Mondavi ( June 18, 1913 – May 16, 2008) was a leading American Vineyard operator whose technical improvements Richard Graff (1937–1998 was one of the pioneers of modern California winemaking Born on January 20, 1937, he grew up in the San Francisco

Retirement

Julia Child's kitchen as seen on display at the National Museum of American History.
Julia Child's kitchen as seen on display at the National Museum of American History.
Portrait taken in 1988
Portrait taken in 1988

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. Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County California, United States. Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton Massachusetts. She donated her kitchen, 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. The National Museum of American History collects preserves and displays American heritage in the areas of social political cultural scientific and military history C. [4]

She received the French Legion of Honor in 2000[5] [6] and the U. S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is along with the equivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed Child also received honorary doctorates from Harvard University, her alma mater Smith College, and several other universities. Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton Massachusetts.

On August 13, 2004, Child died at her home in Santa Barbara, peacefully in her sleep of kidney failure. Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Renal failure or kidney Her final meal was French onion soup. French onion soup is an Onion and Beef broth based Soup traditionally served with Croutons and Cheese as toppings [7]

On August 18, 2004, a documentary filmed during her lifetime premiered. Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The one-hour feature, Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef, was aired as the first episode of the eighteenth season of the PBS series American Masters. American Masters is a PBS Television show which produces biographies on what it considers are the best Artists Actors and 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. For the radio station specifically see WGBH (FM. WGBH is a non-commercial Television and Radio broadcast service located in Boston [8]

In March 2008, director-screenwriter Nora Ephron began filming "Julie & Julia", a film starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an award-winning American Actress who has worked in Theatre,

Public works

Television series

Books

References

  1. ^ CIA A Look Back . The Library of America (LoA is a Nonprofit Publisher of classic American literature. . . Julia Child: Life Before French Cuisine Retrieved February 01, 2008 from [1]. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
  2. ^ Lindman, Sylvia. MSNBC: "Julia Child: bon appétit". Retrieved September 30, 2006 from [2]. Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
  3. ^ "Acknowledgments, In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, published 1995 by Alfred A. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Knoff, Inc.
  4. ^ Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
  5. ^ Goldberg, Carey. "For a Cooking Legend, the Ultimate Dinner Was Served". The New York Times, November 25, 2000. Retrieved November 12, 2006 from [3].
  6. ^ Encylcopædia Britannica Profile: "Julia Child". Retrieved November 13, 2006 from [4]
  7. ^ Sietsema, Tom. "The Special Spice of Julia's Kitchen". Washington Post August 14, 2004, C01. Retrieved November 6, 2006 from [5].
  8. ^ American Masters website: Julia Child
    Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef IMDB listing

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