Julia Child famously said , "Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. She lived a long life β she died at age 91 β and she seemed to love every minute of it.
Though food wasn't her first love and she wasn't French, she ended up teaching millions of Americans how to cook real French food via her television shows and books.
Her warm, funny, slightly cranky persona endeared her to her legions of fans. But who was the real woman behind the simmering pots of delicious French food? What secrets did she have up her rather long sleeves? You might be surprised at how varied and colorful her life really was. From spy to writer to cooking show host to living legend, this is the untold truth of Julia Child. Long before Julia Child started cooking, she dreamt of being a writer.
She graduated from Smith College in , after which she began pursuing her dream to be a novelist. A profile of Child in The New Yorker recounted her story.
She told the interviewer, "They laughed when I sat down at the typewriter. And they were right, too, because nothing much ever came of the plan. Instead, she settled for a copywriting job with the W. Sloane furniture store in New York. Decades later, she published her famous cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking ," and then went on to pen over 15 other cookbooks as well as an autobiography , "My Life in France.
