Vedic Horoscope for Child, Julia

American chef and writer of over nine cookbooks, appearing in more than three hundred television shows. She achieved celebrity status with her book, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," 1961. Child was raised in a well-to-do Pasadena family that hired a professional cook to prepare elaborate family meals. Her father worked as a farm consultant, and her mother was a homemaker with poor cooking skills. When she was a 15-year-old student at Branson School in Ross, California, she dreamed of becoming a novelist or basketball player. She was a history major at Smith College with a "C" average and a reputation as a prankster. After her graduation in 1934, Child worked for a time doing publicity work for W & J Sloane, a furniture store in New York. She had no interest in cooking at the time. With an ambition to be a spy for the secret service, she took a job as a file clerk. In 1942 during World War II, Julia met Paul Child in what was then called Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) when they were both working in the office of strategic services. A career diplomat, Paul was a poet, photographer, artist, violinist, and judo expert. He was ten years her senior and almost four inches shorter, with Julia standing slightly over six feet tall. After the war ended, they returned to California and she enrolled in the Hillcliffe School of Cookery in Beverly Hills. They were married in September 1946 and moved to Washington DC.Contemporary American Horoscopes