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Book Reviewed by:This article relates to My Life in France
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
married they
lived in Paris,
where she
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 her a
national
celebrity,
earning her the
Peabody Award in
1965 and an Emmy
in 1966. Several
public
television shows
and numerous
cookbooks
followed. She
died in 2004.
Alex Prud'homme,
Paul Child's
grandnephew, is
a freelance
writer whose
work has
appeared in
The New York
Times,
The New Yorker,
and other
publications. He
is the author of
The Cell Game
and the coauthor
(with Michael
Cherkasky) of
Forewarned.
He lives with
his family in
Brooklyn, New
York.
This "beyond the book article" relates to My Life in France. It originally ran in April 2006 and has been updated for the
October 2007 paperback edition.
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