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Whoa: When World War II began, she joined the Office of Strategic Services . She was something, all right.
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Whoa: When World War II began, she joined the Office of Strategic Services . She was something, all right.
Probably had a theory that she could kill the US's enemies by blowing their colestorol counts out through the tops of their heads ...
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[snort]! 
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note to self: Do not look at the screen until you have finished swallowing! 
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Shame on y'all. de mortuis and all that. Besides, I enjoyed Julia immensely and learned a good deal from her. As to the cholesterol risk, presumably she ate what she cooked and she lived past 90, din't she? [so there ! emoticon]
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In 1993, she gave an interview to the New York Times in which she said: "If we ate the way nutritionists want us to eat, our hair would be falling out, our teeth would be falling out and our skin would be drying up."
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"God of all creation, you heard the cries of our taste buds for leeks and garlics, and sent us a woman of stature to lead us out of the desert of our diet: Thank you for the gift of Julia Child, who set us free from white bread and spiceless lives, showing us the way to enjoy a foretaste of the heavenly banquet as we gather around our tables each day. Amen."
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Padre, as you know, the Gospel reading for yesterday was the parable of the host, the guests and the banquet.
In a sermon on the true nature of earthly hospitality and the heavenly banquet, the preacher at our Eucharist yesterday posed this question to the congregation: If you were invited to a dinner party by Martha Stewart and were also invited for the same day and time by Julia Child, where would you go? He explained his choice would not be Martha, not because of the criminal charges, but because he would not feel at home or comfortable there however exquisite the food or the setting; whereas he would expect that Julia would welcome him into the kitchen and put him to peeling vegetables while making him entirely at home. Everyone in church concurred.
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I have always had the thought that Julia talks with you and
Martha talks down to you. Is that a good think?
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My uncle was a Jesuit priest, and English Professor. One of his students went to the High School senior prom with Martha. That former student is now the president of prestigious college prep. and Jesuit priest. I judge him to be a wonderful man of great wisdom and compassion. Does that bit of scuttlebutt help with your estimation?
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I found Julia to be a little too ebullient for my tastes. I think I would have preferred to dine with the calmer Martha.
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I think I would have preferred to dine with the calmer Martha.
... and you might have picked up a few stock tips.
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>and you might have picked up a few stock tips.
I'm sure Ms. Childs would have been happy to share some stock tips, too. What sort of a cook wouldn't?
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Ms. Childs would have been happy to share some stock tips ...
Yes. For example, when simmering lobster bits and shells to make lobster stock, the addition of a few stalks of fennel at the beginning adds a quite different (and pleasant) quality to the ultimately reduced stock.
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Shame on y'all. de mortuis and all that.
No disrespect was intended, I think she would have enjoyed the joke. I watched her biography and it seems that her life, her personality and her marriage were as admiration worthy as her cooking.
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Goodness, Zed, what looked like a rebuke was tongue in cheek [no pun intended] and it seems to have sparked a lively thread. She certainly enjoyed little jokes. Some of her shows were mostly serious, especially the early ones; but in late years in many shows (especially the ones with "Jack") she spent a good bit of the hour laughing.
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