Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkinss Profile of Julia Child

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  • By 1974, when Calvin Tomkins wrote his definitive Profile of Julia Child, she had published both volumes of the wildly successful “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” Tomkins captures what made Julia so popular: both the force of her personality and her ability to make people believe that a proper bœuf bourguignon could change their lives
  • Julia believed deeply in the joy that comes from cooking a French dish and genuinely wanted viewers to share her enthusiasm
By 1974, when Calvin Tomkins wrote his definitive Profile of Julia Child, she had published both volumes of the wildly successful Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and was twelve years into her te [+4199 chars]

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