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The Story of Julia Child
Julia Childs was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams on Thursday the 15th of August 1912 in Pasadena, California to parents John McWilliams Jr and Julia Carolyn (Caro) Weston. Her father was a land manager and graduate from Princeton University and her mother was a paper company heiress. Julia was the oldest of three children, she had a brother John McWilliams III, and a younger sister Dorothy Cousins.
In 1912, Pasadena, California was a charming and burgeoning city known for its picturesque landscapes, cultural attractions, and emerging community. Pasadena's natural beauty was one of its main attractions.
The city was nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains and was known for its stunning views, mild climate, and lush gardens. The Rose Bowl, which would become an iconic venue, was constructed ten years later in 1922. Pasadena was characterized by a mix of architectural styles.
French Chef Profile - Sebastien Lutuad
French chef based in Sydney Australia, Sebastien Lutaud. Originally from Lyon, he moved to Australia at a young age with his family who had patisseries in Australia.
Then he moved back to France to start his chef career and then back to Australia where he has a family and runs successful French restaurants.
Sebastien is a great example of how French food can influence your life and how some of the founding fathers of French cuisine can influence a career.
It’s always exciting to talk with chefs, especially French chefs on the podcast and I hope you enjoy this episode of Fabulously Delicious by clicking the photo of Sebastien to go to the link for the episode.
Menton Citrus Festival with Maxime Kien
Recently on Fabulously Delicious, I continued my conversation with Chef Maxine Kien from Boucherie restaurants in New York City. This time with a focus on his place of birth, the French city of Menton and its food, particularly its wonderful food festival, the Menton citrus festival.
When you look at the map of France, if you go to the left you will find Menton on the right Chef Kien says and he fills us in on all things about this wonderful city located on the Cote D’Azur.
Each year the city throws one of the biggest food festivals in France. The Menton Citrus Festival highlights all there is to know about delicious citrus, lemons, limes, oranges, and everything else in between. Chef Kien remembers past festivals that he’s been to as well as their themes. That’s right each year the festival picks a theme to highlight citrus.
Chef Klien discusses all there is to know about Menton and who better to learn from than a Fabulous French chef who used to call the city home.
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French Chef Profile - Maxime Kien
So if you had the opportunity to work in kitchens around the world, would you take it? Would you stay at home in the city, town or country, you know? How do you decide when you're on a career path that's moving up to work in your own restaurant or somebody else's? Is it about your choices or what fate delivers to you? I'm not sure. But I do think that for some people, what guides them is their passion. It's not just our ambitions or chances.
Chef Maxime Kien now lives a life that some of us might envy in New York. But one thing I noticed, and I think you will as well, when I was chatting with him is that his passion for food, and specifically French food is a driver for him. And I'm sure he's influenced all the people he's worked with and who know him. Chef Kien’s food hero was his dad who was a very good chef. He studied culinary arts in Burgundy, where the family's originally from, and made his way to work in Monaco in the south of France. His dad then moved to Menton where Chef Kien was born. Sadly he was taken too young and passed away in a motorcycle accident when Chef Kien was 6 years old.
French Chef Profile - Bruno Feldeisen - Part Two
Bonjour. This is Fabulously Delicious the podcast that brings you the wonderful and fabulous people involved in French food, here in France or around the world. They cook it, produce it, talk, write and photograph it, but above all they love it.
Today is the second of a two-part chat with a French chef that has made his home in Canada. He was born in France and trained to be a chef here, moved to the US, and then settled in Canada where is now the judge on the very popular Great Canadian Bakeoff. Bruno Feldeisen is a wonderful chef that despite a difficult childhood and young adult life in the kitchen has risen to be one of the best French chefs in Northern America. We chat all things TV cooking shows, Chopped Canada, Beating Bobby Fay, Sweet Genius and Donut Showdown as well as discuss French pastry.
French Chef Profile - Bruno Feldeisen
I wanted to change it up a little bit on Fabulously Delicious. Each week I’ve been bringing you delicious episodes revolving around a specific topic. We’ve had Cantal cheese, Confit de canard, and Burgundy wines to name a few, and then we’ve gotten to know the guests who are experts on the topic. But in season one I had the pleasure of chatting with renowned chefs like Phillip Tesser and Gabriel Gate. So I wanted to dive a bit into chef life and bring you a different Fabulously Delicious episode. Going forward every now and then I will have episodes devoted to a French chef who’s either here in France or around the world. We will discover their love of French food, their career journey, their life before becoming a chef, and what lead them to French cuisine.
So today is the first of a two-part chat with a French chef that has made his home in Canada. He was born in France and trained to be a chef here, moved to the US, and then settled in Canada where is now the judge on the very popular Great Canadian Bakeoff. Bruno Feldeisen is a wonderful chef that despite a difficult childhood and young adult life in the kitchen has risen to be one of the best French chefs in Northern America.
Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world.