Julia Child, 91
Posted: Friday, August 13th, 2004 3:44 pm
Julia Child, whose chirping words of encouragement and unpretentious style brought French cuisine to American homes through her television series and books, died Friday. She was 91.
A 6-foot-2 American folk hero, “The French Chef” was known to her public as Julia. She showed a delight not only in preparing good food but in sharing it, and ended her landmark public television lessons at a set table with the wish, “Bon appetit.”
Child died at her home in an assisted-living center in Montecito, about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles, said her niece, Philadelphia Cousins. …
“America has lost a true national treasure,” Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Child’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, said in a statement. … Read full obituary
