Baking with Julia

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Baking with Julia
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Author Julia Child, Dorie Greenspan
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCulinary Arts
Genrenon-fiction
Publisher William Morrow & Co.
Publication date
1996
Media typebook
Pages480
ISBN 0-688-14657-0
OCLC 96023061
641.8/15 20
LC Class TX763 .G654 1996
Preceded by In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs  
Followed by Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home  

Baking with Julia is an American television cooking program produced by Julia Child and the name of the book which accompanied the series. Each episode featured one pastry chef or baker who demonstrates professional techniques that can be performed in a home kitchen. It was taped primarily in Child's Cambridge, Massachusetts house (Julia Child's kitchen was converted into a TV studio for the purpose) and was aired over four television seasons from 1997 to 1999; it is still occasionally aired in reruns on Create on PBS digital stations. [1] [2]

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The series was created as a spinoff of the Cooking with Master Chefs series due to a significant response to the baking episodes and was a nation co-production of A La Carte Communications and Maryland Public Television. [3] The accompanying book was written by baker and food writer Dorie Greenspan with assistance from Child and food tester David Nussbaum, and includes brief biographical sketches of the chefs involved in the show.

Among the prominent bakers and pastry chefs featured were:

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