Editing Julia Child (section)

===''The French Chef'' and related books===
{{main|The French Chef}}

A 1961 appearance on a book review show on what was then the [[National Educational Television]] (NET) station of Boston, [[WGBH-TV]] (now a major [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]] station),<ref>"Boston PBS Station WGBH a Little Giant," ''(Northampton, Massachusetts) Hampshire Gazette'', March 3, 1980, p. 11.</ref>  led to the inception of her first television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to cook an omelette. ''[[The French Chef]]'' debuted as a summer pilot series, on July 26, 1962.<ref>"Today on TV," ''Boston Globe'', July 26, 1962, p. 16.</ref> This led to the program becoming a regular series, beginning on February 11, 1963,<ref>"Today on TV," ''Boston Globe'', February 11, 1963, p. 22.</ref> on [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]], where it was immediately successful. The show ran nationally for ten years and won [[Peabody Award|Peabody]] and [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] Awards, including the first Emmy award for an educational program. Though she was not the first television cook, Child was the most widely seen.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} She attracted the broadest audience with her cheery enthusiasm, distinctively warbly voice, and unpatronizing, unaffected manner. In 1972, ''The French Chef'' became the first television program to be [[close captioning#Terminology|captioned]] for the [[deaf]], even though this was done using the preliminary technology of open-captioning.

Child's second book, ''The French Chef Cookbook,'' was a collection of the [[recipes]] she had demonstrated on the show. It was soon followed in 1970 by ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two,'' again in collaboration with Simone Beck, but not with Louisette Bertholle, with whom the professional relationship had ended. Child's fourth book, ''From Julia Child's Kitchen,'' was illustrated with her husband's photographs and documented the color series of ''The French Chef,'' as well as provided an extensive library of kitchen notes compiled by Child during the course of the show.<ref>{{cite book| title=From Julia Child's kitchen| last=Julia| first=Child| others=Child, Paul, 1902–1994, Walton, Albie| year=1981| isbn=978-0-1404-6371-2| location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England| oclc=877067411}}</ref>