AdvertisementJulia Child On France, Fat And Food On The FloorSeptember 01, 2011facebookEmailBon Appetit: Chef Julia Child shows off a salade nicoise she prepared in the kitchen of her vacation home in southern France, in August 1978. Child remembered the first French dinner she had, back in 1948: sole with mushroom and white wine sauce, and oysters on the half shell. "I just couldn't get over it," she told Terry Gross. "I hadn't ever had that kind of food." (AP)