Just a few days short of her 92nd birthday, Julia Child died this week. You did not need to be a cooking fanatic to have watched her shows although you may have ended up as one after doing so. And a kitchen is hardly complete without one of her books. I also got quite a bit of exposure to her name while studying at Smith College as she was one of those alums such a school could be very excited about. Hat tip to ms.musings who links to all sorts of interesting sites for more background info. Here’s one nice little interview with Child last year in Ms. Magazine where Child is quoted as saying: “I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.”
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Alan K. Henderson 08.14.04 at 6:05 am
New York would drive me to vote Republican. The blue states are so bleeding expensive to live in, after all – there must be a connection.
We’ll miss ya, Julia.
Paul Gottlieb 08.14.04 at 2:36 pm
It must be hard for younger people to visualize the incredible impact that Julia Childs had on my generation. SHe made fine french cooking seem fun and democratic and inspired a revolution in both what we cooked and what we ate. It’s hard to think of anyone who brought so much innocent pleasure to so many people. Of course, all the celebrity TV chefs of today should get down on their knees and say a prayer of thanks to Julia every day. Like Arnold Palmer in golf, she brought mass appeal to what had been the hobby of an affluent few, and created a billion dollar industry
dave heasman 08.16.04 at 9:47 am
The Julie/Julia project : –
http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/
is a log of an attempt to cook through Child’s “Discovering French Cooking”. A book impends.
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