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Chefs
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Culinary Federation Chef & Child Foundation 
 The mission of this nonprofit foundation is "to educate and assist the family in understanding proper nutrition ... and to be the voice of the culinary industry in its fight against childhood hunger, malnutrition and obesity." Includes information about the Childhood Hunger Day national awareness campaign as well as partnerships and fundraising activities. http://www.acfchefs.org/Content/NavigationMenu2/Partnerships/CCF/ Topics: Charity & Nonprofit Resources, Food & Cooking, Health, Holidays and Observances Individually, Notable People, Nutrition & Food Safety, Poverty Last updated Sep 27, 2008 Julia Child: Lessons with Master Chefs
Lessons from dozens of master chefs, with videos. Includes brief biographies of the chefs, some tips, and recipes. "Eater's Digest" offers "more ideas to encourage your own kitchen adventures." Companion site to four PBS series that first aired in 2000, featuring "Julia Child and more than 65 master chefs." Searchable. http://www.pbs.org/juliachild/ Topics: Food & Cooking, Notable People Last updated Aug 19, 2004 StarChefs
Chefs' biographies and favorite recipes. Also a great culinary industry gossip section, list of cooking schools, and jobs posted and wanted section. http://www.starchefs.com/ Topics: Education, Food & Cooking, Notable People Last updated Aug 4, 2002 Television Chef Julia Child Dies at Age 91
A collection of National Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts on chef Julia Child. Includes remembrances, interviews, photos, a few recipes, and links to related sites. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3850087 Topics: Food & Cooking, Notable People Last updated Oct 2, 2004 What's Cooking? Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Tells the story of how Julia Child "gave her kitchen to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History." Includes diary entries of museum staff responsible for dismantling and packing the more than 1,200 individual items, and highlights a few of the cooking tools found in the kitchen (the "set for three enormously popular public-television series"). Also features cooking stories from Child. From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Behring Center. http://americanhistory.si.edu/kitchen/ Topics: Food & Cooking, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People Last updated Aug 19, 2004 World Culinary Institute: Visit With the Masters
Brief biographies of four famous chefs: Fernand Point, Auguste Escoffier, Julia Child, and James Beard. Includes descriptions of culinary careers and highlights, such as Escoffier's "revolutionizing and modernizing the menu, the art of cooking and the organization of the professional kitchen," and how Beard "appeared in his own segment on television's first cooking show on NBC in 1946." From the World Culinary Institute, a site that links to hundreds of cooking schools and related sites. http://www.worldculinaryinstitute.com/the_masters.html Topics: Food & Cooking, Notable People Last updated Oct 23, 2006 |
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