We love Julia Child. We love that she asks us to boil bacon. We love her eight page instructions in Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One on how to make a simple egg omelette. We love her staunch pro-butter stance. We love her height. We tend to love Child's recipes over Pepin's in Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home. And we sobbed the day she died (and just felt a lump in......

Lucky Patricia Wells. She is the American born food critic for the International Herald Tribune, runs a rather posh cooking school in Provence, and has uber agent Amanda "Binky" Urban. The lucky lady even owns one of Julia Child's old stoves! Her life seems to be about eating, cooking, teaching and globe trotting. Example A for the court: she has 14 stops for her current book tour. Wells is a lady of a "certain age",......

SFists Rain and Ced have read Julie Powell's book Julie and Julia, a chronicle of Powell's attempt to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over the course of one year. Ced, in his enviable thoroughness, read Julie and Julia to prepare for his interview with the author, and has agreed to pass his review copy on to a winning SFist reader. So, enter below by midnight Monday to......

Julie Powell first got her fifteen minutes of fame as the author of the Julie/Julia Project. She decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over the course of one year, all 524 of them in 365 days in her little Queens kitchen, and to each day document the progress on a blog. The blog was so successful and received so much attention (even from our Gothamist friends),......

We didn't know what to do with the tomatillos we received last year in our CSA box. Though the SFist test kitchen didn't exist yet, its diligent staff draws heavily from French and Italian cuisines. Julia Child and Carol Field don't devote any space to the Mexican food that uses these bright green vegetables with their distinctive papery husks. Now that the test kitchen is in full swing, we kept an eye out for......

SFist interviews Julie Tucker, co founder of Smartsco....

Recent months have seen the passing of two revolutionary figures in gastronomy, first Frugal Gourment Jeff Smith and this morning the iconic Julia Child. Both hosted staple programs on America's original 'food network,' KQED....