March 13-15, the inaugural Santa Barbara Culinary Experience food weekend offers more than 40 events, including French cooking classes and special dinners paying homage to famed TV chef Julia Child.

She may be best known for her life in France, or for her years spent in Boston where she filmed over 200 episodes of “The French Chef,” but Julia Child was a California girl through and through. Born ...

The beloved television star, cookbook author, and bon vivant extraordinaire Julia Child — who spent her waning years at Casa Dorinda in Montecito, surviving on tacos from La Super-Rica and hot dogs ...

Julia Child’s legacy is coming to life with the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience. After years in France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the world-renown chef and author spent her last years in Santa ...