Process Paper
I decided to research Julia Child for my History Day topic when I saw a documentary about her 100th Birthday on the History Channel. This show told me about Julia Child and what she wanted to accomplish. Another thing that helped me decide on Julia Child was that I enjoy cooking with my mom and I loved to go to cooking classes and cook a lot when I was younger. I thought that she looked like fun so I did a little research and found her to be interesting. I continued to look into her and was very intrigued by her interesting voice and astounded that she won an Emmy for her show, The French Chef.
I started working on my National History Day project by looking online about how Julia Child impacted the culinary world. I found many sites that were helpful and some that were not. I looked for quotes and statistics in the websites and also looked to see those that were written by a reliable source. I also read, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child’s first cookbook, and, My Life in France, the story of how Julia fell in love with cooking and pursued it in France. I watched many of her cooking shows from her series, The French Chef and Julia Child and More Company. My family and I cooked many of Julia Child's recipes so I would know the style that she cooked in and how the ingredients were simple and common.
I chose to enter in the website category because I knew that I would be able to incorporate photographs and video clips in my project as well as text. This would allow me to show a picture or video clip to explain something that I have in my text document. I also wanted to be able to reference many different websites within mine and I thought that this would be a good way to do that. Also, Julia Child is funny so I would love to include funny clips of her talking or cooking in my website so that the judges will be able to experience Child like I have while researching her.
Julia Child is a big turning point in the culinary world. She taught the world that anybody can cook and that cooking and entertaining around food is fun. She made this possible by writing a cookbook that used common ingredients. Also, Julia was the first woman to have her own TV show. This was called, The French Chef. On her television show, Julia showed the world how to cook using simple step by step instructions. She showed how to bone a chicken and techniques like which knife to use for different jobs.
I started working on my National History Day project by looking online about how Julia Child impacted the culinary world. I found many sites that were helpful and some that were not. I looked for quotes and statistics in the websites and also looked to see those that were written by a reliable source. I also read, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child’s first cookbook, and, My Life in France, the story of how Julia fell in love with cooking and pursued it in France. I watched many of her cooking shows from her series, The French Chef and Julia Child and More Company. My family and I cooked many of Julia Child's recipes so I would know the style that she cooked in and how the ingredients were simple and common.
I chose to enter in the website category because I knew that I would be able to incorporate photographs and video clips in my project as well as text. This would allow me to show a picture or video clip to explain something that I have in my text document. I also wanted to be able to reference many different websites within mine and I thought that this would be a good way to do that. Also, Julia Child is funny so I would love to include funny clips of her talking or cooking in my website so that the judges will be able to experience Child like I have while researching her.
Julia Child is a big turning point in the culinary world. She taught the world that anybody can cook and that cooking and entertaining around food is fun. She made this possible by writing a cookbook that used common ingredients. Also, Julia was the first woman to have her own TV show. This was called, The French Chef. On her television show, Julia showed the world how to cook using simple step by step instructions. She showed how to bone a chicken and techniques like which knife to use for different jobs.