Child of legend

AMERICA’S first celebrity chef and television cooking pioneer Julia Child died recently, just a few days before her 92nd birthday.

I first met her at an IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) conference in Washington in 1986.

My good friend Zanne Stewart, food editor of Gourmet Magazine, introduced me to her and explained that I had opened a little cookery school in east Cork in Ireland. Julia was so gracious and interested, I eventually showed her a few photos I had brought of the school and gardens, the hens and the local produce.