Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California in 1912. She graduated from Smith College with a small interest in becoming a writer, but stuck to writing in her diary. She had always wanted to break the ordinary middle-class lifestyle, and travel the world looking for adventures. After Pearl Harbor, she went with many others looking for work at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). After volunteering for the OSS to go to the Near East, Julia ended up in Sri Lanka where she found not just adventure, she found love.
Unlike any other love story, it was not love at first sight for Julia and Paul Child, a French speaking artist, poet, and world traveler. Paul wrote to his twin brother of Julia being “wildly emotional”, “extremely sloppy thinker”, and “unable to sustain ideas for long.” It only took a matter of time for the two to slowly fall quietly in love. I the summer of 1946 Paul and Julia traveled the world together. While on this adventure, Paul noticed something about Julia. She loves to eat while using her senses, and has an unusually keen sense of smell. When the war ended and Paul was assigned to the US Information Service at The American Embassy in Paris, Child was finally introduced to the French culture she had, until then, appreciated only from a distance.
Steady Berlitz courses had driven Julia to enroll at Le Cordon Bleu, where she studied under Chef Max Bugnard, who became her favorite teacher at the school. At a time when most well-to-do French and American housewives were content to let their maids and cooks assume