Recipes attributed to the famous and not-so-famous

One of my favorite thoughts is that possibly daily there are some people making a recipe I shared with them in my cooking school or through my writings. Many may never be as famous as Julia Child yet recipes we have shared will influence people’s lives.

Thus my focus today is on the famous…and the not-so-famous.

First the most famous cook of the last few decades, Julia Child.

There are some of us cooks who recall when Julia Child seemed to burst upon the culinary scene in her most refreshing and unorthodox manner. She shunned the starchy white uniforms of the day, was almost starkly frank and...