Julia Child was 40 when she found her true calling. A name now synonymous with culinary excellence, she didn’t know what a shallot was when she moved to Paris after WWII and fell in love with French cuisine. At a loss about what to do with herself, she studied at the celebrated Cordon Bleu cooking school. More than a decade (and many rejections) later, she published Mastering the Art of French Cooking and began the PBS program “The French Chef,” which ran for 10 years. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
The quintessential French chef didn’t discover her passion until age 40
Woodruff Home for the Aged, where aging with dignity battles corporate greed
