Julia Child, whose warbling, encouraging voice and able hands brought the intricacies of French cuisine to American home cooks through her television series and books, died in her sleep three days before what would have been her 92nd birthday.
“America has lost a true national treasure,” Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for Alfred A. Knopf publishing, said in a statement Friday. “She will be missed terribly.”
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