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Julia Child

American cooking personality (1912–2004)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for having brought French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.

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“Julia Child” enters the record as american cooking personality (1912–2004). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Julia, Child and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Julia, Child and American.
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“Julia Child” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Julia, Child and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “Julia Child” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.