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Ashlie D. Stevens

How Child's dishes were recreated for TV

Julia Seacia Pavao / HBO Max

There are so many things that are iconic about Julia Child. Her gregarious mannerisms, her penchant for butter, her singular kitchen. But nothing is perhaps more inherent to Child's persona than the recipes she shared week after week on her beloved show, "The French Chef."

So, how do you take those well-known dishes and bring them to life for a brand-new TV audience? That's what the producers behind HBO Max's "Julia" had to figure out when it came time to shoot the limited series. To ground the real-life story being told in authenticity, they enlisted the expertise of veteran food stylist Christine Tobin. 

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