Asphalt Trip - 2nd Bit

Here's a Pasadena Fact: Julia Child, the American who cooked French cuisine, was born in Pasadena on August 15th, 1912. Who knew a Pasadenan would write a 734 p. best-selling book on French Cooking? Who knew any 734 p. book would be a best-seller in America. It took a visit to France and an epiphany over a plate of oysters for Child to become the most famous cook in America but Southern California was the right geography to supplement her culinary awakening. In 1981 (at the age of 69) she founded the educational American Institute of Wine and Food in Napa, California with vintners Robert Mondavi and Richard Graff to "advance the understanding, appreciation and quality of wine and food" and today the institute has 25 chapters.