Julia Child was a liberal

[wryter2000]

"Although a staunch liberal when it comes to politics, Julia is eminently flexible about the culinary arts (unless one is preparing some vulgar American road food such as canned cherry pie or sticky barbecue)."

http://www.cooksillustrated.com/otherdoc.asp?otherdocid=228

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[BlooInBloo]

1. And the woman loved her gin!

[dsc]

2. and everyone else's too

[wryter2000]

4. And she lived to almost 100

Take that, food nervous Nellies, as she called them

[Auggie]

7. She loved cheeseburgers more

[Captain Hilts]

13. Her favorite meal: martini and a rare cheeseburger. nt

[madaboutharry]

3. In her beautiful biography "My Life in France,"

she writes about her liberal politics and how she often got into it with her "Pasadena Republican" father.

I really recommend this charming biography, it is a wonderful read. Julia Child was an extremely intellectual and interesting woman.

[wryter2000]

5. I should get that

Did it mention her work with the OSS?

[madaboutharry]

6. Yes, she does.

She also writes about how she fell into cooking after having moved to Paris because of her husband's work. She started to take cooking classes in Paris because she was a horrible cook! It is a rather hilarious story.

[China_cat]

8. I absolutely agree.

It's a wonderful book.

[wryter2000]

11. Darn

You two are going to cost me money. :)

[China_cat]

14. You won't be sorry you spent it.

But if you're really short, you could always check your local library for a copy.

[trof]

23. Second that. And if you liked that book, read

Anything by M.F.K. Fisher.
Google her.

[FredScuttle]

9. "Oh, now I've done it - I've cut the dickens out of my finger...."

[wryter2000]

10. I'm sure she enjoyed that more than anyone else n/t

N/T

[peekaloo]

24. LOL first thing I thought of was :"Save the liver!"

[Captain Hilts]

12. Adored the Clintons. I real bare-knuckle Democrat. Like Lauren Bacall is. nt

[Cleita]

15. Way back in the sixties, my roomate and I used to watch her very first

cooking show on UHF (you needed a separate antenna for it) just for the laughs. We thought she was a hoot. Amazingly, she inspired us to try to learn to cook in our largely unused kitchen back then. I always loved Julia through the decades and came to appreciate her as more than a clown who made me laugh, but an important cultural icon of the century.

[wryter2000]

16. Her ad-libs were amazing

I remember her with the electric egg poacher. "This doesn't poach eggs. It steams them. I don't know why I have it in my house." And she dumped it into a trash can.

[Cleita]

17. She was amazing.

The show was taped once only so she had to make the best of all the mistakes she made, the chicken that slipped on the floor, the souffle that didn't rise and the curdled hollandaise sauce and she made it so entertaining.

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

19. Kinda Eleanor Roosevelt in the kitchen.

Hulking women with kooky voices you'd choose to be in a lifeboat with.

[Captain Hilts]

18. DU needs a Julia Child avatar!!!!!!! nt

[fishwax]

20. and a spy

well, not really a spy, but she worked for OSS during WWII.

A toast to Julia :toast:

[Captain Hilts]

21. They said she was physically too big to be a spy. People notice a woman 6'2"...

some friends of mine knew her when she was a bored USIA housewife in DC and Paris. Said she and her husband were a riot.

[Orsino]

22. Eh? Since when is flexibility the opposite of liberalism? n/t