The success of Volume 1 resulted in Julia Child being given her own television show, The French Chef, one of the first cooking programs on American television.
The success of Volume 1 resulted in Julia Child being given her own television show, The French Chef, one of the first cooking programs on American television. Historian David Strauss claimed in 2011 that the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking "did more than any other event in the last half century to reshape the gourmet dining scene".[2]