FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Julia Child ~ January 12, 2015

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Julia Child

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Julia Child: 1912-2004

Julia McWilliams Child was born Aug. 19, 1912, and was, she has said, "an adolescent until I was 30." One of her grandfathers left Illinois in 1849 when he was 16 to pan for gold in California. Her mother, tall and lively like Julia, had roots in New England. Julia grew up in Pasadena in a large house with drivers, gardeners, cooks and a kitchen that both she and her mother rarely saw or cared about. She played center for her private-school basketball team and enrolled in Smith College where she lived what she describes as a "butterfly life," driving her friends around in a Ford and graduating in 1934.

To many, Julia Child is the darling grandmother who taught Americans how to appreciate great cooking. Few know, however, that this part of her life came after a high-level stint in the OSS (a CIA precursor) during WWII. Julia Child became interested in military service when she joined the Red Cross after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Before then, Julia was becoming the Paris Hilton of her day -- she would stay out late drinking and socializing and, being from a privileged background, could afford to do so. Joining the Red Cross helped her focus her life on constructive goals. The new lifestyle appealed to her and the Red Cross became her first step toward serving her country.

Julia was eager to do more, but at 6' 2" she was too tall for other military service organizations. Refusing to give up, she a traveled to Washington in 1942 to explore her options. Soon she began working for the Office of Strategic Services. Although she has modestly claimed her duties were only clerical, her performance record suggests otherwise. By 1943 she had been promoted and was working with very sensitive intelligence material. That same year, she was recruited to travel overseas and help manage intelligence activity in WWII’s Pacific theater. Stationed in Kandy, Sri Lanka, she helped the OSS track data on a range of topics including troop movement and espionage. Julia helped coordinate the information necessary to plan the attacks on the Japanese-held islands in the area.

To some degree, Julia was to the service what “Q” was to James Bond -- although her duties didn’t involve undercover work, she helped develop supplies and techniques for spies and clandestine operatives. One of Julia’s first OSS teams was assigned the task of finding ways a spy stranded on a life raft could get water. One particularly unappealing strategy they experimented with was drinking water squeezed from a fish’s body. Unfortunately, the technique turned out to be useless.

Julia’s other surprising contribution to the OSS was a shark repellant. The United States had underwater mines that were being inadvertently detonated by sharks. The shark-induced explosions had two main downsides: There was one less mine and German U-Boats could chart the minefield’s location and know where to avoid. The OSS needed a way to keep sharks away from the explosives, so they turned to Julia. She and some coworkers cooked up a shark repellant that was used to coat the explosives. Unlike her fish squeezing technique, Julia's shark repellant seemed to be successful.

After her service in the OSS, Julia married Paul Child, an OSS operative she had worked with while in Sri Lanka. The two moved to Paris in 1948 where Paul Child worked for the U.S. Intelligence Service. Soon, she began attending the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris and developed skill in preparing French cuisine. Julia's cooking interests and abilities grew steadily, and in 1961 she published her first cookbook: 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking.' It was this book and her subsequent television appearances that made Julia Child a household name, but the events were set in motion by her employment in a clandestine intelligence agency.
 

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[radu]

I didn’t watch her show but my mother did, so I’d see bits here and there. Her voice was odd, no doubt.
But mainly, I’d think, “I wouldn’t want to be in a kitchen with her and her ‘implements of destruction’ “. LOL!

[ConorMacNessa]

A 6'2" woman with a shrill voice standing over a large dead animal of questionable identity with what appears to be a Samurai in her hands?

I would give her some distance.

[radu]

Yeah, like in another room! LOL!

[ConorMacNessa]

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[mylife]

Tribute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4psw_tGGkU

[luvie]

Yeah, she was always waving around some instrument of food torture! LOL!

[mylife]

Just for the Hubby LOL

Bon Apatite.

[wjcsux]

I never knew about this part of Julia’s life! Wow! Thanks for telling us!

[Tanniker Smith]

Hello, Kathy! Hello, all!

Just a quick drop by before bedtime, saying a prayer for a Facebook friend who lost his father today, a WWII marine. Be at rest, Mr. Timar, Thank you for your service.

[mylife]

Though Julia Child, with characteristic Yankee modesty, was to disparage, in numerous interviews, her wartime career as “a clerk,” Paul revealed otherwise. In a letter to his twin brother, he declared her “privy to all messages both incoming from the field or Washington, etc., and outgoing to our agents and operatives all over China-Burma-India.”

[mylife]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech-Culture/2012/0815/Julia-Child-was-a-spy.-Was-she-any-good-at-it-video

[Nifster]

and she was always so modest about what she did in the war....

[MHT]

You might want to read her autobiography. I was shocked at how much she despised Republicans, particularly her father who financed her life in France as her husband’s salary was insufficient. She was also particularly cruel to her business partner Simone, who helped make her the celebrity she was. When her friend was dying and asked for help in maintaining gardens of the property where Julia and Paul were allowed to build a house for free, Julia didn’t want to help as she would lose her vacation time in doing so. Maybe a hero, but not a nice person.

[fatima]

She endorsed a book condemning the Blessed Mother.I fought and had it removed from our local library.Turns out she didn't like Catholics.

[mylife]

There are layers and layers of perception here.
I think she is fantastic.

We will never know the full ledger, but on sum, she led an exemplary life.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, yarddog....I was surprised as well.

She is an interesting piece of our history.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I rarely watched her show, but she seems like a crazy woman...things flying everywhere. She seemed to be having pure fun.

Maybe that says something about this picture.

[Dad x 3]

A tribute of a different sort. Nostalgic nonetheless...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ZrUI7RNfI

[Kathy in Alaska]

She sure was.....turned down by both the WACs and the WAVEs, she kept trying to serve her country, and she did!

[mylife]

Alfred Hitchcock~ The French Chef

LOL