Ingredients:
- A love of French cooking.
- Six months of training at France’s prestigious Cordon Bleu
- The determination to bring sophisticated French cooking to mainstream America
- A down-to-earth approach and unreserved sense of humor
Yields:
- The two-volume, 800-page “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” — considered the definitive culinary tome
- “The French Chef” – the award-winning TV series
- Induction into the Culinary Hall of Fame
- A home in the Smithsonian
Variations:
- Dan Akroyd’s hilarious “Saturday Night Live” take-offs
- Julie Powell’s wonderful “Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously,” a memoir in which the appealing writer creates all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s classic book. Meryl Streep will star as Julia in the movie next year.
