IT ALL STARTED WITH A French teacher at a high school in Phoenix, Arizona. “I had a really good French teacher who made moving to France seem possible,” says Kendall Smith Franchini, co-owner of The Cook’s Atelier, a culinary school she set up with her mother in the medieval town of Beaune, in the heart of Burgundy wine country.
Her mother, Marjorie Taylor, says it actually all started with Kendall herself: “I blame it on Kendall because she’s a real Francophile,” she says. “Even as a child, she was always fascinated with France.”
But maybe it all started with Julia Child, the TV chef whose 1961 cookbook,, introduced French cuisine
