FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Julia Child ~ 13 August 2018

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

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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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[mylife]

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[mylife]

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[luvie]

#22’s bright sparkly eyes were a giveaway to his general well being!

I think you’re right about the eyes in the crate. If the other two showed up tonight, they probably only got crumbs. The ones that stuck around are plumping up. LOL!

Glad those beans are looking healthy and I hope you get some more rain when they need it most. Also hoping that your back settles down. Nothing much else is worse than that kind of pain. It affects EVERYthing!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...hope you are recovering well from your museum job. Any rain?

We got 2 tenths of an inch of rain and I’ll take it. But the wind has been blowing like crazy since early morning.

[radu]

The change in attitude is what’s remarkable. Two days ago, he spent all his time cowering in fear and now he’s almost cocky. LOL! Not sure what caused the change but I love it.

The two MIAs will have to learn that if they aren’t home on time, they’re gonna miss out and the others are gonna benefit. :-)

There’s a little rain in the week’s forecast and maybe we’ll be lucky enough to get some here. The beans are in great shape for now at least.

The back’s not all that bad today. Just enough to be aggravating but not enough to keep me from doing what needs to be done.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Luv...help in the kitchen?

Julia Child was quite the lady! And one of our heroes as well!

[CovenBuster]

Julia is okay, but I just love Jacques Pépin. It’s like watching an artist to see him cooking.

[radu]

Yay for some more rain! Two tenths an inch isn’t bad and any is better than none. I hope there’s more in your forecast to help catch you up.

That wind could do y’all a favor and move on though. I hope it isn’t strong enough to do damage around the city.

Took it kinda easy today but that’s more because there wasn’t anything pressing than anything. It still helped after yesterday and it’ll be all systems go tomorrow.

I hope you got a lot of rest today so you’ll be ready to deal with your week ahead. Sounds like it’s going to be a “fun” one. *sigh*

[mylife]

Jacques is ok.

[luvie]

I was shocked when you told me he had become agressive and the last thing I had seen was that pitiful little cowering things with feathers pulled out! I, too, am thrilled for the little spunkster!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...NYC is not my idea of fun.

May we assume you are not exploring the city?

Have a good flight in the morning.

[radu]

I think everyone was shocked, in a good way, by the change.

Did you see the scaps I FReepmailed last night? Lots of giggles then.

[The Mayor]

Mixer coming along.
Grand baby #7 is in ICU need prayers.
Friend running for congress to replace corrupt guy
Busy weekend, busy week coming up.

Thanks for the thread my FRiend!

[luvie]

I sure did! It was just so late, I didn’t answer it and then forgot to do so today, like a dork.

He was really showing off that crop. LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I’m torn...have the wind blow all the clouds away so I can maybe see the meteor showers or more rain. As hard as it has been blowing for hours, the sky is still overcast and looking like rain.

[radu]

I figured you were already asleep when I sent them and hadn’t checked today.

I was hoping someone would have a clip of him waving his head and neck trying to get all the food to go down but not that I’ve found. That’s was the funniest part. Oh well.

[luvie]

She sure was....and really knew how to keep a secret. I never knew all this stuff. LOL!

Thanks for posting it!