Aug 15 2026
Born on this day, August 15, 1912, Julia Child would become one of the most unlikely—and most beloved—revolutionaries in American food. She did not grow up dreaming of becoming a chef. She did not attend culinary school as a teenager or inherit a family restaurant. In fact, Julia was well into her thirties before food …
Apr 25 2011
Critically acclaimed French chef Jacques Pepin grew up in the kitchen of his family’s restaurant near Lyon, France, where he was born in 1935, which naturally led to the young boy’s first apprenticeship at age 13 at the renowned Grand Hotel de L’Europe. Pepin would move on to cook at Plaza-Athenee and Meurice in Paris …
