When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

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.