Wednesday would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday (she died in 2004 at age 91), and remembrances for the cooking icon saturate the Internet this week like one of her rum-soaked desserts.

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For decades on PBS, Julia Child brought her infectious enthusiasm for French cooking into the kitchens of her rapt viewers, passing on the culinary lessons she had learned during the years she lived in France.

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