Julia Child
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1978 publicity portrait of Julia Child in her kitchen
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Julia Carolyn McWilliams August 15, 1912 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Died | August 13, 2004 (aged 91) Montecito, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Kidney failure |
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Smith College B.A. History 1934 Le Cordon Bleu Le Grand Diplôme |
| Spouse(s) |
Paul Cushing Child (1946–1994; his death) |
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| Cooking style | French |
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 Julia Child On France, Fat And Food On The Floor, 11/14/1989, 10:13, Fresh Air with Terry Gross
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 French Chef; Lasagne a la Francaise, 11/25/1970, 28:37, WGBH Open Vault
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Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.
Child was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams in Pasadena, California, the daughter of John McWilliams, Jr., a Princeton University graduate and prominent land manager, and his wife, the former Julia Carolyn ("Caro") Weston, a paper-company heiress whose father, Byron Curtis Weston, served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
Child attended Park meadows elementry from third grade to sixth grade, then the Katherine Branson School in Ross, California, which was at the time a boarding school. At six feet, two inches (1.88 m) tall, Child played tennis, golf, and basketball as a child and continued to play sports while attending Smith College, from which she graduated in 1934 with a major in English. A press release issued by Smith in 2004 states that her major was history.
Child grew up with a cook who served her family. She did not observe or learn how to cook from the family's chef. Her grandmother from Illinois would make doughnuts and crullers. Child did not learn to cook until she met her would-be husband, Paul, because he grew up in a family very interested in food.
Following her graduation from college, Child moved to New York City, where she worked as a copywriter for the advertising department of W. & J. Sloane.
Child joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after finding that she was too tall to enlist in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) or in the U.S. Navy's WAVES. She began her OSS career as a typist at its headquarters in Washington, but because of her education and experience soon was given a more responsible position as a top secret researcher working directly for the head of OSS, General William J. Donovan.
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