Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Julia Child

Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Julia Child

The Barefoot Contessa writes about the author of cookbooks such as “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” who also hosted the TV show “The French Chef.”

Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Julia Child - Dining and Cooking

By 1974, when Calvin Tomkins wrote his definitive Profile of Julia Child, she had published both volumes of the wildly successful “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” and was twelve years into her television show, “The French Chef,” on public television in Boston. Tomkins captures what made Julia so popular—both the force of her personality [...]