Julia Child's Love For Cooking

Julia child once stated, “Find something you 're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” Julia was always looking for ways to encourage people to stay passionate about what they love to do, especially women. Child constantly wanted to make sure women knew what they were capable of doing. Julia was always passionate about becoming a writer, but then found that she had a love for cooking. She tied both of them together and began to write cookbooks. Julia Child’s compassion and love for cooking influenced the world by playing an important role in the Second World War and encouraging many to pursue the art of cooking. Julia Child was born to John McWilliams Jr. and Julia Carolyne Weston in Pasadena, California on August 15,

Few people know that Child had a career as an intelligence officer in World War II. After her service was over she volunteered at the Office of Strategic Services or The OSS, since she was too tall to join the military. She was sent overseas to work in Ceylon and was one of 4,500 women to join the organization. Child worked as a research assistant for the leader of the OSS, General William J. Donovan. During her last two years of her services she was chief of the OSS registry. After she finished her service, Julia worked with the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section. Julia and the other volunteers developed and designed rescue and kits and together were able to develop the first shark repellent recipe. Child told her producer, Margret Sullivan once, “I could boil water for tea, but my first big recipe was shark repellent that I mixed in a bathtub.” A mixture of black dye and copper acetate bound up in water creating Soluble Wax. The mixture was placed into a pouch that, in 1944, the war department began issuing to sailors and pilots. The recipe for Child’s repellent was used all the way into the Vietnam War and is still being used today for downed space equipment. The repellent is strapped around the equipment causing sharks not to attack it when it comes near the shore. At the age of 31 she met Paul Child, who was also an OSS officer. In September 1946, Julia and Paul were married. In 1948, Paul was assigned with the United States Information Agency in France. This was the time when Child started to study culinary arts in school, Le Cordon Bleu. Once Child began to become serious about pursue a culinary career, Paul had designed and built Julia’s first kitchen in Cambridge