Here are seven menus to make any meal a treat--morning, noon, or evening. From a breezy Holiday Lunch featuring a melon-sized pate of chicken and a salad of skewered vegetables to a homey Sunday Night Supper of corned beef and pork with a fresh tomato fondue, Julia shows you how to plan ahead and cook without trepidation. Her incomparable step-by-step recipes, shopping lists, variations, and suggestions for leftovers are complemented by more than 100 photographs and ensure success with every meal.
Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She was graduated from Smith College and worked for the OSS during World War II in Ceylon and China, where she met Paul Child. After they married they lived in Paris, where she studied at the Cordon Bleu and taught cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she wrote the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). In 1963, Boston's WGBH launched The French Chef television series, which made her a national celebrity, earning her the Peabody Award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966. Several public television shows and numerous cookbooks followed. She died in 2004.
(Photo credit: (C) Michael P. McLaughlin)
