FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Julia Child ~ August 23, 2010

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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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[ConorMacNessa]

We still have mail delivered to the front door - don't know the name of the current postman at this juncture - but we knew the name of his immediate predecessor.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[oldteen]

I had a pretty good day EXCEPT for the allergies. It was a necessity to shop today (out of too many things) and had to actually carry a whole box of kleenex around with me..lol.

[oldteen]

Not only did we have milk delivered, milkmans name was Gino, but he came so early, like 3am, that we would leave the door unlocked and he would come in and put it in the fridge...lol. Would we do that today? I DON’T THINK SO!

[oldteen]

We still have mail delivered to the front door

Unless it's a package too big for the box, it isn't delivered to our door. We have those stupid cluster mailboxes that actually belong to the post office and nothing fits in them!

[ConorMacNessa]

When I was a child, we didn't lock the doors either. Now? I think not!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Seven....interesting story about the relatives wanting to cash in on his name.

[luvie]

Awwwwww....the new puppy is Winston! A fine name...I hope he
doesn’t get as pudgy as his namesake! LOL!

[left that other site]

Hi Everyone!

Got a bunch of new students this week.

Precious Kids!Some of them are really talented.

I get them making REAL music right away with a mistake-proof duet in Gb where they improvise on the black keys while I play a sequence on the left side which is a very cool pattern. Everything they play sounds excellent, as long as they keep to my groove and play ONLY Black keys. It sounds like very sophisticated New Age Jazz, and it’s on the First lesson!

On Guitar, it’s a little different. I tech the “Blues Scale” early on, then plug in the Bass and let them Improvise over me playing a Blues Bass line.

Either way it’s like being in a BAND!

[luvie]

We have mail delivered to the front door, too. I think we are
“grandfathered” in. The newer homes either have the clusters
or you have to walk to the sidewalk to get mail.

U OK? I M! :D

[oldteen]

Right, and we always knew where the car keys were...in the ignition. Nowadays, I lock my car, in the locked garage...lol.

[luvie]

I’ll bet kids love to have you for a music teacher!

[ConorMacNessa]

His registered name is TJM Winston S Churchill. A glorious name, IMHO. I thought I would encounter some resistance from the family, but they're all cool with it.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I’m older than dirt! We never had home milk delivery, but our neighborhood did. And we saved S&H greenstamps. I remember getting out a damp sponge and pasting in the full pages. Then working at filling up the page with the single stamps, or just a couple rows.

[luvie]

It’s very cool....and I am sure he will live up to it!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thank you for tonight’s thread Star and Ma.
Good evening everyone.
The Cats rocked the Balloon Festival this afternoon!
the rain held off until just after they were done!

[oldteen]

I B GR8 :).

Our cluster boxes are about 2 blocks away. Nice little walk tho, except in the pouring rain. They finally put up some solar lights around them as we don't have street lights and in the winter people were complaining it was a little difficult after 5 to get their mail (I carry a flashlight in the console...guess they didn't think of that..lol.)

[left that other site]

I try to make it fun!

I use a LOT of stickers and Prizes and positive reinforcement.

We also play a lot of Beatles, Disney and Blues.

And i very seldom beat them. LOL.

[SandRat]

In keeping sorta with the theme of tonight's Canteen thred:

Enjoy the Perks of Coffee!

FROM BEANS TO GROUNDS AND FROM FILTERS TO CANS, THE MANY ASPECTS OF COFFEE ARE NO LONGER RESERVED FOR MORNINGS ALONE.

>>FRESHEN YOUR BREATH.
Completely out of breath mints? Simply suck on a coffee bean for a while and you mouth will feel clean and fresh again.

>>FILL A BEANBAG.
They don't call them beanbags for nothing. Coffee Beans are ideal as a beanbag filler. To ensure you're getting the most bang for your buck, purchase the least expensive bans — they will work just as well,

>>DON'T RAIE ANY DUST.
Before you clean the ashes out of your fireplace, sprinkle them with wet coffee grounds. They'll be easier to remove, and the ash and dust won't pollute the room's atmosphere.

>>MAKE A DEHUMIIFIER.
If your basement is to damp, try this effortless solution. Fill an empty coffee can with salt and leave it in the corner where it will be undisturbed, creating an instant dehumidifier. Replace the salt at monthly intervals or as needed.

>>KEEP TOILET PAPER DRY WHENCAMPING.
Bring a few empty coffee cans with you on your next camping trip. Use them to keep toilet paper dry in rainy weather or when you're carrying supplies in a canoe or boat.

>>STORE BELTS.
If you have more belts than places to hang them, just roll them up and store them in a cleaned-out coffee can with a clear lid. Coffee cans are just the right size to keep belts from creasing, and the clear lids help you find each belt easily.

>>FILTER CORK CRUMBS FROM WINE.
Don't let cork fragments ruin your enjoyment of a good glass of wine. If your attempt at opening a bottle of wine results in floating cork crumbs, simply decant the wine through a coffee filter.

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!

Missing Man Setting

Never Forget Those Who Sacrificed All That We Could Live In Freedom!!

[oldteen]

Well, Winston is a very prestigeous name. Bruno may sound more ferocious but....lol.