Julia Child in her kitchen in 1978
“A party without cake is just a meeting.’’
— Julia Child (1912-2004), the very tall, cheery, warbly and down-to-earth American TV personality, cooking teacher and book author whose show The French Chef (1963-1973), produced by WGBH TV in Boston, near her home in Cambridge, became one of the most popular shows in the history of public TV.
