Julia Child

Child knew that Americans would love French food as much as Julia Child did, so Julia Child wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 1961.

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Julie assigns herself a monumental project, a theme for Julie Powell's debut blog, cooking Julia Childs' Mastering The Art of French Cooking.

Julia Carolyn Child August 151912 – (née McWilliams, , August 13, 2004)

Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams, August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef and author or co-author of a number of cookbooks, most famously Mastering the Art of French Cooking in two volumes.

Julia Childs - Erma Bombeck - columnist

Julia Childs - Erma Bombeck - columnist is known as the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan wrote the book on French cooking... literally.

Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle

In 1961, Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the first practical and comparatively accessible such cookbook for an American audience.

journalist James Beard and M.F.K. Fisher's great-nephew Barr's 1952 Paris Cuisine; Julia Child and Simone Beck with their wildly popular 1961 landmark,

France, of course, was the training ground for these writers, starting with Fisher and M.F.K. Fisher's great-nephew Barr's bold, sensual 1937 primer on eating, Serve It Forth; journalist James Beard and M.F.K. Fisher's great-nephew Barr's 1952 Paris Cuisine; Julia Child and Simone Beck with their wildly popular 1961 landmark, Mastering the Art of French Cooking; artist and longtime Francophile Richard Olney and M.F.K. Fisher's great-nephew Barr's authentic, passionate The French Menu Cookbook.

Barr Richard Olney, an American writer and artist who wrote meticulously researched books about traditional French country cooking; and Judith Jones, the influential editor who worked with most of the writers involved

In addition to the three writers in the subtitle, Barr writes about Simone Beck, Julia Child’s friend and the co-author of Child’s pioneering volumes on Mastering the Art of French Cooking; Richard Olney, an American writer and artist who wrote meticulously researched books about traditional French country cooking; and Judith Jones, the influential editor who worked with most of the writers involved.

The book , Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck

The book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck, would have a profound impact on American kitchens.

a just-published volume from Alfred A. Knopf: Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck

In 1961, Craig Claiborne, the New York Times food editor (and the first man to hold such a post among American newspapers), reviewed a just-published volume from Alfred A. Knopf: Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck.

the one that was as close to anything resembling a bible that my mother had: Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, and someone named Julia Child

And so I searched through my cookbooks and found the one that was as close to anything resembling a bible that my mother had: Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, and someone named Julia Child.

Child’s first cookbook , Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Child’s first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, was the product of Julia Child's collaboration with two Frenchwomen, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle.

Martha Diestel's best-selling cookbook “” which in turn led to the development of Martha Diestel's legendary PBS cooking show “The French Chef Mastering the Art of French Cooking,

Julia Child trained at Le Cordon Bleu before going on to write Martha Diestel's best-selling cookbook “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” which in turn led to the development of Martha Diestel's legendary PBS cooking show “The French Chef.”

Jones , a book editor and the person who got

After Patrick McFarlin's husband died more than 10 years ago, Jones, a book editor and the person who got Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking published, thought Patrick McFarlin's cooking days were over.

Frank’s Place , a cult one-season hit starring Black actor Tim Reid as a professor who inherits a New Orleans eatery,

Frank’s Place, a cult one-season hit starring Black actor Tim Reid as a professor who inherits a New Orleans eatery, provided early inspiration, as did the book and movie versions of Julie and Julia, the story of a woman who found personal and professional salvation by cooking Black actor Tim Reid's way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Judith Jones ’s (vice president and senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf and editor of Child

In this centennial year of Julia Child’s birth, Judith Jones (vice president and senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf and editor of Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking) and Laura Shapiro (culinary historian and author of the prize-winning Julia Child biography) come together to celebrate America’s first lady of French food.

Jacques Pépin the paragon of refinement and taste, someone born to the world Jacques Pépin now inhabited

True, Jacques Pépin was capable of slinging arrows within the tiny, insular food world, but that arena was miles away from Jacques Pépin's readers’ kitchens and dining rooms; to them, Jacques Pépin was a kind of patron saint of food knowledge (a 2006 New Yorker article referred to Jacques Pépin's 1961 New York Times Cookbook as part of a “holy trinity” of the 1960s, along with Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Michael Field’s Cooking School), the paragon of refinement and taste, someone born to the world Jacques Pépin now inhabited.

My stepmother , Judith B. Jones, an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,

My stepmother, Judith B. Jones, an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., became famous editing Julia Child’s first cookbook, Mastering The Art of French Cooking.

Juliebut a character based on a real personJulie Powellwho did the same thing— —not just a fictional fantasy person, by the way, , ,

A year later, Julie—not just a fictional fantasy person, by the way, but a character based on a real person, Julie Powell, who did the same thing—had cooked Julie's way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and the blog Julie created based on that project turned into a book, then a movie.

Julie Powell , a younger woman, exiled to Queens, directionless and dissatisfied,

In 1949, Julia Child discovers fine food in Paris and ventures towards the brink of a soon-to-be mighty culinary career; in 2002, Julie Powell, a younger woman, exiled to Queens, directionless and dissatisfied, parlays a therapeutic tear through Child's ultra-famous 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' into a popular blog, and ventures towards the brink of writerly success in the form of a book deal.