From the Archives: Remembering Julia Child

Revisiting My Culinary Idol on the 112th Anniversary of Her Birth

Julia Child On Set

I didn’t know today was Julia Child’s birthday until an alert arrived that a piece I wrote years ago had been linked by a French website. During her lifetime, Child never reaped the accolades she deserved in France, where she trained at Le Cordon Bleu and spent her happiest years. Yet two decades after her death, when I least expected …