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By the author of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", this book presents a guide to modern home cooking. Blending the essentials of formal techniques with an understanding of the new demands for simplicity and healthiness, it is designed both to teach the beginner and to inspire the expert.

Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California. She 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 write 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."