7.26.2012

Thursday, July 26, 1962: 'The French Chef'

Julia Child's cooking show is first broadcast for a local audience on public television station WGBH in Boston. The show would begin airing nationally on February 11, 1963.

* Video of Child preparing boeuf bourguignon (first national show in 1963): @
* "Julia Child's 'The French Chef' " (book by Dana Polan, 2011): @
* From www.pbs.org: @
* Timeline from The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts: @
* Excerpt from "Icons of American Cooking" (Victor Gerachi and Elizabeth S. Demers, 2011): @
* "Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian" website: @
* "Our Lady of the Kitchen" (Vanity Fair, August 2009): @
* "TV: Pummeling and Shaking Turkey, It's Ebullient 'French Chef' " (New York Times, November 1970): @
* Earlier post on "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (October 16, 1961): @

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