''Baking with Julia'' is an American television cooking program produced by

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and the name of the book which accompanied the series. Each episode featured one pastry chef or baker who demonstrates professional techniques that can be performed in a home kitchen. It was taped primarily in Child's Cambridge, Massachusetts house (

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was converted into a TV studio for the purpose) and was aired over four television seasons from 1997 to 1999; it is still occasionally aired in reruns on

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on PBS digital stations. The series was created as a spinoff of the ''Cooking with Master Chefs'' series due to a significant response to the baking episodes and was a nation co-production of A La Carte Communications and Maryland Public Television. The accompanying book was written by baker and food writer Dorie Greenspan with assistance from Child and food tester

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, and includes brief biographical sketches of the chefs involved in the show. Among the prominent bakers and pastry chefs featured were: * Alice Medrich (Episode 102) * Michel Richard (Episodes 103, 304) *

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(Episodes 105, 307) *

Gale Gand Gale Gand is a Chicago-based pastry chef, cookbook author, television personality, and winner of the 2001 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef. Gand was the host of the Food Network show ''Sweet Dreams''. She was the Chef-in-R ...

(Episodes 106, 312) *

Norman Love Norman Love is an American pastry chef located in Fort Myers, Florida. Career Love served as corporate executive pastry chef for Ritz-Carlton from 1988 to 2001, opening hotel pastry kitchens in such locations as Boston, Dubai and Bali. Love left Ri ...

(Episode 107) * Nancy Silverton (Episodes 111, 303) *

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* Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford (Episodes 203, 311) *

(Episode 213) * Martha Stewart (Episodes 301, 302)

Bibliography

*Julia Child and Dorie Greenspan. ''Baking With Julia'' New York: William Morrow & Co., 1996, 481pp, illus.

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External links

''Baking with Julia''
IMDB 1990s American cooking television series Cookbooks 1996 non-fiction books 1997 American television series debuts 1999 American television series endings PBS original programming James Beard Foundation Award winners {{food-book-stub