"Beating the Nazis with Truffles and Tripe: The Early Years of Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living with David Strauss"

Food scholar David Strauss (Setting the Table for Julia Child: Gourmet Dining in America, 1934–1961) discusses how Gourmet's launch in 1941 served to unite the cuisines of wartime allies the U.S. and France in kitchens across America.