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TIME, it turns out, is full of chefs, from Newsmarker Bruce Chapin, who can turn out Julia's supreme de volatile, to Editor Peter Martin, who mixes up popovers and curried eggs for Sunday breakfast. Researcher Betty Suyker, a longtime Child enthusiast who gets credit for first suggesting this week's cover, is considered our best cook. Two years ago, she spent three weeks perfecting her culinary techniques at L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, the Paris school which Julia still helps...
...seen she is. Julia Child, 54, is the 6-ft.-2-in.-tall star of the Emmy-winning half-hour program, The French Chef. Her viewers on 104 educational TV stations across the U.S. watch her every move, forgive her every gaffe and, in a word, adore her. Manhattan matrons refuse to dine out the night she is on. When Washington, D.C.'s WETA interrupted her program to carry Lyndon Johnson live, the station's switchboard was jammed for an hour. Miami's WTHS-TV ran through 117 of her 134 taped shows (the earliest tapes have...
...Tradition-with Rules. Julia Child's TV cooking shows have made her a cult from coast to coast and put her on a first-name basis with her fans. And when her followers are not watching and taking notes, they are likely to have her cookbook open at their elbow in the kitchen. Amid an avalanche of new cookbooks-206 last year alone-Julia Child's five-year-old Mastering the Art of French Cooking has grown to be the new bestseller in the field, with close to 300,000 copies sold at $10 apiece. But what really...
...Gourmet" happens to be a word that makes gourmets, including Julia, wince. "French cooking is just a wonderful way to treat food," she says in her pleasant, direct way. "All it really is, is just good cooking." It is her thesis that French dishes are superior not because they are fancy but because they are logical, simple and good...
...armory of knives, whisks, skillets, spoons and apron. But this time she also brought an array of bottles containing every conceivable kind of oil, except castor oil, plus half a dozen varieties of flour, six kinds of margarine, and sticks and sticks of butter. Then, for eight straight days, Julia did nothing but bake brioches, dozens at a time. When the rest of the house were awakened by a loud crash in the kitchen at 5 a.m., they knew it meant that Julia had jettisoned yet another batch. "You can't have had much of a vacation," said...