Julia Child - chef, television celebrity and author

Julia Child was an American chef, television celebrity and author. She is known for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her entrance cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her succeeding television programs, the most famous of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963. Child joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after result that she was too tall to join in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) or in the U.S. Navy through the WAVES. Child began her OSS occupation as a typist at its headquarters in Washington. The three would be authors originally signed a contract with publisher Houghton Mifflin, which later discarded the manuscript for seeming too much like an encyclopedia.

In initial published in 1961 by Alfred A. Knopf, the 734-page Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Child was a preferred of audiences from the moment of her television debut on public television in 1963, and she was a recognizable part of American culture and the subject of numerous position. On August 18, 2004, a documentary filmed through her lifetime premiered. Julia Child died of kidney failure at her aid living home in Montecito, two days before her 92nd birthday. Child ended her final book My Life in France with”.

Date Of Birth	August 15, 1912
Place Of Birth	Pasadena, California
Cooking style	French
Spouse	Paul Cushing Child
Date Of Died	August 13, 2004
Place Of Died	Montecito, California