We've all read about how revolutionary Julia Child was here in the States with Mastering the Art of French Cooking and The French Chef, where she managed to make French cuisine accessible to America. But how was she seen in France?
While browsing The New York Times online for my Intro to Islam class, I stumbled upon an article about Julia's work abroad. As it turns out, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia's most popular cookbook, was never translated into French, and Julia never really appealed to our foreign friends. Actually, some French food experts say Julia "caricatured French cuisine in her book and cooking show, making it seem too heavy and formal." This is highly different from our Americanized view, where Julia is THE authority for our French cooking...which made me wonder: how much of what Julia called French is actually American?
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