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

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house ( Julia Child's kitchen 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 Create 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

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. The accompanying book was written by baker and food writer

Dorie Greenspan Dorie Greenspan (born October 24, 1947) is an American author of cookbooks. ''The New York Times'' called her a "culinary guru" in 2004. Culinary career Greenspan has won the James Beard Foundation Award five times, as well as the Internatio ...

with assistance from Child and food tester David Nussbaum, and includes brief biographical sketches of the chefs involved in the show. Among the prominent bakers and pastry chefs featured were: *

Alice Medrich Alice Medrich is a businesswoman, baker and cookbook author with a particular interest in chocolate. She founded the Cocolat chain of chocolate stores, has authored numerous cookbooks, and is referred to as the First Lady of Chocolate."Alice Medrich ...

(Episode 102) *

Michel Richard Michel Louis-Marie Richard ( ; ; March 7, 1948 – August 13, 2016) was a French-born chef, formerly the owner of the restaurant Citrus in Los Angeles and Citronelle and Central in Washington, D.C. He has owned restaurants in Santa Barbara, Toky ...

(Episodes 103, 304) * Marcel Desaulniers (Episodes 105, 307) * Gale Gand (Episodes 106, 312) * Norman Love (Episode 107) *

Nancy Silverton Nancy Silverton (born June 20, 1954) is an American chef, baker, and author. The winner of the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Award in 2014, Silverton is recognized for her role in popularizing sourdough and artisan breads in the Un ...

(Episodes 111, 303) * Steve Sullivan *

Naomi Duguid Naomi Duguid (born 1950 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a food writer and photographer from Canada. Duguid is based in Toronto and has coauthored six cookbooks, and well as ''Burma: Rivers of Flavor'' in 2012 which was her first solo publication. She is be ...

and

Jeffrey Alford Jeffrey Alford is an American-born Canadian food writer, best known for cookbooks co-written with his ex-wife Naomi Duguid. Alford was from Laramie, Wyoming and he graduated from high school there in 1972. He earned a master's degree in creative ...

(Episodes 203, 311) * Norman Love (Episode 213) *

Martha Stewart Martha Helen Stewart (, ; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing pu ...

(Episodes 301, 302)

Bibliography

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

References

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