In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.

Fortunately the French don't suffer from the same hysteria we do. The eldest of three children Julia Child had a brother John III (1914–2002) and a sister Dorothy Dean (1917–2006). C.

Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15 1912 – August 13 2004) was an American chef author and television personality.