Tall (6'2"), imposing, American culinary personality extraordinaire who has brought a regal, quasi-British authority and calorie-crammed delights to the American public for over three decades. After training as a French chef in Paris (and opening a cooking school soon afterwards) while her husband worked for the American Embassy, Child returned to the US in 1961. She made a guest appearance on a local Boston TV show, and was soon thereafter offered her own cooking instruction program. "The French Chef" became one of the longest running series in the history of public broadcasting and, along
Served as a clerk in the OSS during WWII; met future husband who was a mapmaker
Husband Paul Child joined the US state department after the war and was assigned to the Embassy in Paris; the couple lived there for six years during which Child studied French cooking
Opened a cooking school, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, in France with partners Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle during the 1950s
1954
With Beck and Bertholle contracted to write cookbook, "French Cooking in America"; published in 1961
1961
Returned to the United States; settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts
