Ep. 12 - What We Love About JULIA
Sarah Lancashire as Julia Child in the HBO Max limited series Julia. Photo credit: HBO WarnerMedia
HBO Max's Julia is inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her long running public television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. The French Chef launched in 1963 on WGBH in Boston.
In this podcast, The Boston Sisters (Michon and Taquiena) riff on impressions of the HBO Max series and Julia Child's impact on American cooks, public television, and our own palates with restaurant consultant and wine expert, Janet Cam. This podcast explores food, culture, and identity as examples of the "joie de vivre" that Julia Child inspired through her cooking shows and cook books as well as how her life demonstrates that it's never too late to become who you are meant to be.
JANET CAM
Janet Cam was the co-founder of LePavillon, the first nouvelle cuisine restaurant in America. She is a recipient of the Wine Spectator’s Grand Award and included in Who’s Who in America’s Restaurants. Janet appears on various media platforms, conducts in-person and on-line wine tastings.
Janet provides consulting services to restaurant and hospitality-related businesses leading a collaborative process to build profitable ventures from the ground up and redevelop existing businesses into fresh, competitive operations. Janet’s work with a local restaurant group has made them nominees for the 2022 James Beard Awards. Janet has been hosting virtual wine tastings which have been a tremendous success.
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Created by Daniel Goldfarb (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), HBO Max’s Julia is inspired by Julia Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running public television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. Through Julia’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity and America’s cultural evolution. At its heart, the series is a portrait of a loving marriage with a shifting power dynamic as Paul Child is forced to retire from the foreign service; and Julia Child’s star rises following the publication of her signature cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”
Cast: Sarah Lancashire (Julia Child), David Hyde Pierce (Paul Child), Bebe Neuwirth (Avis DeVoto), Brittany Bradford (Alice Naman), Fran Kranz (Russ Morash), Fiona Glascott (Judith Jones), Isabella Rossellini (Simone “Simca” Beck), Robert Joy (Hunter Fox), Judith Light (Blanche Knopf), James Cromwell (John McWilliams).