Julia Child: A Fifty Year Retrospective, Oct 19 in New York

Julia Child: A Fifty Year Retrospective

Julia Child: A Fifty Year Retrospective
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park
New York, N.Y. 10003
8:00pm
Admission: FREE
For further information, please contact Marc Levy at culinaryarts@thenationalartsclub.org

Why is it that fifty years after the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and seven years after her death, Americans are still infatuated with Julia Child? Several of her closest collaborators, along with experts on Julia Child, will discuss her contributions to cookery, television, and American society. Panelists include: Judith Jones, Julia’s legendary editor at Knopf who wrote about her work with Julia in The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food (2007), and who discovered the manuscript of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and gave the work its title; Geoffrey Drummond, who produced Julia Child’s later television series including Julia and Jacques: Cooking at Home; food writer Molly O’Neill, a protégé and friend of Julia’s and author of One Big Table (2010); Laura Shapiro, author of Julia Child: A Penguin Life (2007); Dana Polan, who teaches Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television and wrote Julia Child’s The French Chef (2011); Dr. Amy Trubek, a trained chef and anthropologist teaching at the University of Vermont, and the author of A Taste of Place; and Columbia University professor (and Julia Child dinner guest) Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, who writes about the sociology of food. The moderator will be Andrew F. Smith, and author of 22 books on culinary history, including Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine (2009), where he wrote a chapter about Julia Child and her impact.