The late Julia Child’s genuine love of eating and cooking and her passion for sharing her knowledge with whoever wanted to learn, serves as an inspiration for many an aspiring cook. In Julia’s own words: “Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes. But like any art it requires practice and experience. The most important ingredient you can bring to it is love of cooking for its own sake.”
Julia Child, the mother of American-French cooking and the first face of culinary television. Julia, regarded as the mother of American-French cooking and the first face of culinary television, introduced French Cuisine to American housewife’s.
More than a decade after her death, the Julia Child Foundation For Gastronomy And The Culinary Arts announced the launch of the annual Julia Child Award which will honor an individual who has made a profound and significant difference in the way America cooks. The award will be presented annually to a chef who “encourages people to cook for themselves, to better understand where food comes from, to value eating and drinking and the importance that both can play in improving the quality of life”. The first Julia Child Award will be bestowed in August 2015. Rather than a cash award, the winner will receive a $50,000 grant to “pay it forward” to a food-related nonprofit group. (Source: www.washingtonpost.com)
Read my post American Food Icon: Julia Child for more info on the Julia’s life and the movie Julie & Julia (2009). It is an American comedy-drama film that contrasts the life of chef Julia Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child’s first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, in 365 days. The movie sheds light on how difficult it must have been for Julia to join a male-dominated industry and succeeding with flying colours!
