The original queen of cuisine, the first rock star foodie, Julia Child became a cooking phenomenon throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, thanks to her PBS series and cookbooks. A trailblazer for sharing her love and enthusiasm for cooking and food in the mediums of books and TV, Child paved the way for today’s culture of 24/7 food programming, passing away before seeing the influx of reality TV cooking, Food Networks, and foodie social media.

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“Today, you have rock star chefs; Julia Child was the first,” says renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson (who you might recognize from the cooking reality show “Chopped“) at the beginning of the trailer for “Julia,” a new documentary from Sony Pictures Classics. Julia Child was the first famous cookbook author; her book Mastering the Art of French Cooking became a major hit, she helped further popularized The Joy Of Cooking book, which she famously said she learned to cook from, and then there was her many television shows that were a good showcase for her ebullient personality.

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