Julia Child Research Paper

Julia Child was born Julia McWilliams, on August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California. The eldest of three children, Julia was known by several pet names as a little girl, including “Juke”, “Juju” and “Jukies.” Her father, John McWilliams, Jr., was a Princeton graduate and early investor in California real estate. Her mother Julia Carolyn Weston had inherited a paper company. Her grandfather served as the Lieutenant Governor for the state of Massachusetts.

In 1930 she attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts with the intention of becoming a writer. Although she enjoyed writing short plays and regularly submitted articles to the New Yorker, none of her writing was published. In 1934 she graduated and she moved to New York where she worked in the advertising department of the famous home furnishings company W&J Sloane. After moving to the store’s Los Angeles branch Child was fired for “gross insubordination”, personal …show more content…
Julia played a key role in the communication of top-secret documents between U.S government officials and their intelligence officers. She and her co-workers were sent on several projects around the world. In 1945, while working in Sri Lanka, Julia started dating a fellow OSS Paul Cushing Child. In September of 1946, after the end of World War II, Julia and Paul returned to America and decided to get married.

In 1948, Paul was sent to the U.S Information Service at the American Embassy in Paris. While there Julia expanded her love for French cuisine and decided to enroll in the world-famous Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. After her six-months of training with master chef Max Bugnard, Julia became friends with two other students, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. The three of them formed their own cooking school L’Ecole de Trois Gourmands (The School of the Three