{"id":13620,"date":"2017-11-21T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/?p=13620"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:37:29","slug":"france-feast-photo-exhibit-celebrates-julia-child-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/2017\/11\/21\/france-feast-photo-exhibit-celebrates-julia-child-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;France Is a Feast&#8217;: Photo Exhibit Celebrates Julia Child &#8212; Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"styles-headerBasic--3czk2\" data-reactid=\"68\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneFeature--9px5Z\" data-reactid=\"88\"><span data-reactid=\"89\">Katie Pratt and I teamed with the Napa Valley Museum to launch a show of Paul Child&#8217;s photos, art, and artifacts &#8212; from \u00a0photos of Julia and Paris, to his drawings, paintings, and stained glass, his Rolliflex camera, and a recreation of his Paris studio.<\/span><span data-reactid=\"89\">\u00a0The opening night party on 11\/11 was the museum&#8217;s biggest night yet, and Paul and Julia would have been thrilled. The show runs\u00a0through Feb 18, 2018, so if you are anywhere near Napa drop by for a look.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p data-reactid=\"88\">Here&#8217;s an AP story about it:<\/p>\n<header class=\"styles-headerBasic--3czk2\" data-reactid=\"68\">\n<h1 class=\"Heading1-heading1--20o8k styles-heading1--2Ap5d styles-toneFeature--jyaQG elementStyles-heading1--UcIYs elementStyles-toneFeature--9px5Z Heading1-toneFeature--imewp\" data-reactid=\"74\"><span class=\"Heading1-headline--8Qzcc balance-text\" data-reactid=\"75\"><span data-reactid=\"76\">&#8216;France Is a Feast&#8217;: Photo Exhibit Celebrates Julia Child<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"styles-bylineTimestamp--2J2fe styles-toneFeature--jyaQG\" data-reactid=\"78\">\n<div class=\"elementStyles-byline--33rWc styles-byline--Dn1Bu styles-toneFeature--jyaQG\" data-reactid=\"79\">\n<div class=\"Byline-bylineGroup--2XIy_\" data-reactid=\"80\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\"81\"><span class=\"Byline-bylineAuthor--d8i20 elementStyles-authors--voZdU\" data-reactid=\"84\">The Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\"81\">By Eric Risberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"styles-bylineTimestamp--2J2fe styles-toneFeature--jyaQG\" data-reactid=\"78\"><time class=\"Timestamp-timestamp--3FJff elementStyles-timestamp--26VGL styles-timestamp--KJFCK\" datetime=\"2017-11-21\" data-reactid=\"85\">Nov. 21, 2017<\/time><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneFeature--9px5Z\" data-reactid=\"88\"><span data-reactid=\"89\">\u00a0YOUNTVILLE, Calif. \u2014 Mention Julia Child and the image that comes to mind is a tall woman with a spoon in one hand, saying in a high voice, &#8220;Bon appetit!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneFeature--9px5Z\" data-reactid=\"92\"><span data-reactid=\"93\">That was Child in her heyday as a 1960s TV show host teaching Americans the art of French cooking. But a new photo exhibit at California&#8217;s Napa Valley Museum Yountville documents her life in France in the years before she hosted one of America&#8217;s most popular TV cooking shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneFeature--9px5Z\" data-reactid=\"96\"><span data-reactid=\"97\">Child, a graduate of Smith College, worked during World War II for the agency that was the predecessor of the CIA. In 1946, she married Paul Child, who worked as a cultural attache at the U.S. embassy in Paris while his wife learned how to cook at the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, subsequently studying with several famous chefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneFeature--9px5Z\" data-reactid=\"100\"><span data-reactid=\"101\">That period of her life was documented by Paul Child and is the subject of the show, &#8220;France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child.&#8221; The exhibit was inspired and shown in conjunction with the release of the book &#8220;France is a Feast&#8221; by Paul Child&#8217;s great-nephew, Alex Prud&#8217;homme, and Katie Pratt, the Childs&#8217; longtime friend, who also curated the exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"story-ad-1-wrapper\" class=\"ResponsiveAd-storyBodyAd--35v2w\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneFeature--9px5Z\" data-reactid=\"104\"><span data-reactid=\"105\">The exhibit features 60 rarely seen black-and-white photographs taken between 1948 and 1954 along with notebooks, logs, letters and a Rolleiflex camera that Paul Child liked to use because it allowed him to look down and capture people unobtrusively &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"104\">For the rest of the story, please see:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2017\/11\/21\/arts\/ap-us-julia-child-exhibit.html?_r=0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Pratt and I teamed with the Napa Valley Museum to launch a show of Paul Child&#8217;s photos, art, and artifacts &#8212; 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