Julia Child
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Julia Child Speaks to Food Editors
I just came across this great image of Julia Child. She is speaking on taking the mystery out of fine French seafood cookery, in New York, October 5, 1964, before the Newspaper Food Editors Conference, under the sponsorship of the National Fisheries Institute. It is available in Child’s papers at the Schlesinger Library. Here is the link. Here is a link to a story about Julia written by one of the newspaper food journalists that I am beginning to collect information about: Katie Carlson. Carlson was the longtime food editor at the Daytona Beach Morning Journal. Here is my earlier post about her that described Carlson as “Martha Stewart before…
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