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May 16, 2022 · Cooking legend Julia Child introduced French cuisine to American audiences in 1963 with GBH’s groundbreaking television series, “The French Chef.”. Now the subject of the HBO Max series, “Julia,” GBH explores what’s fact and what’s fiction and how “The French Chef” continues to influence how we eat today with this Q&A virtual ...
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HBO has ordered “Julia,“ a drama series inspired by cookbook...
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WGBH. Cooking legend Julia Child introduced French cuisine to American cooks in 1963 with GBH’s pioneering television series, The French Chef. She was passionate about food and she changed the way Americans cook and eat. GBH is proud to look back at her accomplishments and how we helped to make her a household name.
The French Chef is an American television cooking show created and hosted by Julia Child, [1] produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 [2] to January 14, 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on American television.
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The French Chef with Julia Child. Now available in PBS Passport. In this special collection, now chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia Child’s love of authentic French food and learn to cook some of her most loved dishes from her original series on Public Television.
- Julia and Paul Child had a wonderfully modern marriage. During World War II, Julia McWilliams worked for the Office of Strategic Services, which later became the CIA.
- Julia’s first meal in France was oysters and sole meunière. When they first arrived in France and were making their way to Paris, Julia and Paul stopped at the famed Restaurant La Couronne in Rouen for their first official French meal.
- At Le Cordon Bleu, Julia was the only woman in her cooking classes — but it didn’t faze her. Before arriving in France, Julia hadn’t really cooked at all, so when she moved to Paris she enrolled in the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, hoping to understand French culture.
- Julia’s life in post-war Paris wasn’t always glamorous... Americans love to romanticize France, but Julia’s writing shows that even as they fell in love with the country, Julia and Paul often experienced inconveniences to their daily life in France.
Julia Child was devoted to the art of French cuisine. And starting in 1963, The French Chef single-handedly taught a nation how to cook well, eat well and drink well. Now today’s chefs and celebrities delight in six of the most-beloved episodes from her groundbreaking series, offering insightful, funny and personal comments in unabashed ...
Apr 25, 2022 · Julia Child and her GBH producer Russ Morash discuss a dish during a pilot show. GBH’s headquarters had been destroyed in a fire, so filming took place at a donated kitchen cabinet showroom at the Boston Gas Company. Later episodes were taped in the donated studios of the Catholic Television Center near Boston University.
