Baking with Julia

Baking with Julia is an American television cooking program produced by Julia Child and the name of the book which accompanied the series. Each episode featured one pastry chef or baker who demonstrates professional techniques that can be performed in a home kitchen. It was taped primarily in Child's Cambridge, Massachusetts house (Julia Child's kitchen was converted into a TV studio for the purpose) and was aired over four television seasons from 1997 to 1999; it is still occasionally aired in reruns on Create on PBS digital stations.^[1][2]

Baking with Julia

Author	Julia Child, Dorie Greenspan
Language	English
Subject	Culinary Arts
Genre	non-fiction
Publisher	William Morrow & Co.
Publication date	1996
Publication place	United States
Media type	book
Pages	480
ISBN	0-688-14657-0
OCLC	96023061
Dewey Decimal	641.8/15 20
LC Class	TX763 .G654 1996
Preceded by	In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs
Followed by	Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home

The series was created as a spinoff of the Cooking with Master Chefs series due to a significant response to the baking episodes and was a nation co-production of A La Carte Communications and Maryland Public Television.^[3] The accompanying book was written by baker and food writer Dorie Greenspan with assistance from Child and food tester David Nussbaum, and includes brief biographical sketches of the chefs involved in the show.

Among the prominent bakers and pastry chefs featured were:

• Alice Medrich (Episode 102)
• Michel Richard (Episodes 103, 304)
• Marcel Desaulniers (Episodes 105, 307)
• Gale Gand (Episodes 106, 312)
• Norman Love (Episode 107)
• Nancy Silverton (Episodes 111, 303)
• Steve Sullivan
• Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford (Episodes 203, 311)
• Norman Love (Episode 213)
• Martha Stewart (Episodes 301, 302)^[4]

Bibliography

• Julia Child and Dorie Greenspan. Baking With Julia New York: William Morrow & Co., 1996, 481pp, illus. ISBN 0-688-14657-0