In 1961, Julia Child published the first volume of her seminal cookbook “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” spawning a popular PBS cooking show (“The French Chef”) and opening the world of gourmet cuisine to American households. More than six decades later, we still can’t get enough of Child’s warm, can-do spirit, with a propensity for ribald jokes and making mistakes that endeared her to novice chefs and housewives. Her groundbreaking foray into public television is the subject of HBO Max’s “Julia” (now streaming), a delectable new dramedy that explores the relationship between Julia (Sarah Lancashire) and her husband, Paul (David Hyde Pierce), as she worked to launch “The French Chef” in 1963.’Minx’: How HBO Max’s feminist porn comedy exposes the surprising history of adult magazinesThe show arrives less than two weeks after Discovery+ introduced a competition series inspired by the icon, “The Julia Child Challenge,” in which eight home cooks compete to win a chance to study for three months at Le Cordon Bleu, the famed Paris cooking school where Child got her start. And with an Oscar-shortlisted documentary (“Julia”) released last fall, and old episodes of “French Chef” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, interest has seemingly never been higher in all things Child.“A lot of people ask me about this resurgence, but in the cooking world, she never goes away: The younger generation still looks up to her and has all her books,” says Antonia Lofaso, head judge on “Julia Child Challenge.”“Personally, I think it has to do with what everyone just went through (with the pandemic). People were home, they wanted to learn new skills, and she is someone that we always go back to to learn those skills. There hasn’t really been anyone in history besides her who has taken those classic skills of braising and poaching and fundamental cooking so seriously.”HBO Max’s “Julia” is hardly the first dramatic depiction of Child: “All in the Family” star Jean Stapleton played her in the 1991 Off-Broadway production “Bon Appetit,” while Meryl Streep earned a best actress Oscar nomination for her performance in the 2009 film “Julie & Julia.” And then, of course, there was Dan Aykroyd’s iconic “Saturday Night Live” impression, in which his clumsy Child sliced a finger and spurted blood during a cooking demonstration. But the eight-episode first season of “Julia” goes beyond the warbling voice, frumpy attire and bumbling demeanor of past portrayals of Child, who died in 2004 at age 91. In the series’ first three episodes, Julia struggles with menopause and childlessness. It also shows that she had a healthy romantic partnership with Paul, a diplomat and her spouse of nearly 50 years.”We wanted to explore all the nuances of who she was,” says co-creator Christopher Keyser (“Party of Five”).
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