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Julia had a 30-minute program in the 60s. There wasn’t much TV available then (3 networks and educational channel).
One day, I happened to watch for lack of anything on the other channels. She was making some kind of bread.
As the program went on, she was kneading and slamming the dough like a baseball bat against the counter. I was in stitches. She was happily talking and slamming.
By the end of the program, she had flour all over the counter, some of the wall, her apron, her face, her hair.
I fell in love with her at that point.
Whenever possible throughout the years, I watched many of her PBS programs. She was a delight.
Authoritative, occasionally wacky with a loopy warbling voice that reinforces that impression, very amusing to watch and to hear as a result, comfortable in her own skin and able to lampoon herself, and very fond of alcohol, in her dishes or in its own right.
Perfect fodder for entertaining television that also manages to educate, but she’s not enough of a model-perfect clone, to ever meet with the success today, that she enjoyed in her prime.
Who’s become more shallow, network executives, or the viewing public? A pretty strong case could be made for either, or both.
This trhead is nonsense. And BTW stuff it.
I feel pretty sure of myself after a nice glass of Cabernet. More so after two! ; )
Bon Appetite!
Ol’ Julia was a beauty in many ways.
Remember the time she bled all over the set while cutting up a chicken? She never batted an eye.
BTW, she was a top employee at William Donovan’s OSS during WW2.
She first wanted to be a nurse but was too TALL!
She’s probably cooking up some goodies for the Angels now.
As I recall she was also a secret agent at some time in her life. A lot of Hollywood was once composed of veterans, from Audi Murphy to Pappy Boyngton.
We just refer to her as cousin Julia.
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Ever watch Sandra Lee? I think she, too, has a hollow leg....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMNZ6xY6YY
One of the 100 greatest Americans who ever lived. Most Americans don’t know that Child’s SECOND career was cooking. That she was a SPY, and a damned good one, in the OSS. And a great patriot.
SNL, years ago, featured Julia in skits that always had her “two sheets to the wind” by the end.
One time I awoke from my slumber in the wee hours of the morning
(like 2AM).
I look at the television I’ve failed to turn off and say to myself
“What the heck is Dan Ackroyd doing on TV at this hour?”
After a short time my steel-trap intellect realized that I was actually
looking at the real Julia Child!!!!!
(I suppose this is probably a tribute to Dan Akroyd for his hilarious
imitation of Ms. Child.)
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Child must have imbibed quite a bit of alcohol on a daily basis, I think.
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Heck, the drinking started at breakfast for Cajun Chef Justin Wilson,
I suspect.
Seeing how his poached egg recipe included plenty of flavored liquors.
Bless you Justin Wilson...wherever you are!
Amuse Bouche Bump.