![]() ![]() Julia became the first educational TV star, virtually launching PBS as we know it today. She was already fifty when The French Chef went on the air, at a time in our history when women were not making those leaps. She eventually settled in Paris, where she learned to cook. Julia Child was a directionless, gawky young woman who ran off halfway around the world to join a spy agency during World War II. The warble voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. ![]() And yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. It is even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. ![]()
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