Julia Child and her passion for food

Posted on 08 October 2009

Whilst in Melbourne last weekend, I was reading the A2 section of the Melbourne Age and came across an article by Michael Pollan called ‘Food for thought’. Reading it, I realised it was the same article which had appeared in the New York Times in August.  In it Michael Pollan gives his views on food and cooking today. It was written as a result of the release of the new movie with Meryll Streep on Julia Child, called Julie and Julia – a true story based on the lives of these two women - Julie Powell, a budding writer, come blogger, and Julia Child, who is credited with being the first US television ‘celebrity chef’ way back in 1963! Her autobiography called ‘Julia Child – My life in France’…… is a wonderful story for food lovers. She was such a passionate cook, trialling recipes tens of times until perfected and then with the results writing her famous two volume work – Mastering the Art of French Cookery….a serious ‘bible’ of classical French cookery. Julia studied her commercial cookery at La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, the same La Varenne, still operated by Ann Willan that I attended in 2008. However it is no longer in Paris but at Ann Willan’s Chateau du Fey in Burgundy. Click here for the link to the New York Times article>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html?pagewanted=1&emc=eta1