[Sca-cooks] Re: [Servicenet] A passing of a foodie giant

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach Susan Fox-Davis:
>
>> James Fox-Davis wrote:
>>
>>> I just heard over the news that Julia Child, the primal TV-chef and 
>>> Mistress of French Cuisine for Americans, has died.
>>>
>>> Everyone doff your tocque for a minute in respect.
>>>
>>> Jared
>>
>> This is a very bad year for noted Cookbook Authors.  Alan Davidson, 
>> Jeff Smith, Myra Waldo and now Julia Child. I may have to reconsider 
>> my plans for writing cookbooks.  Hoo boy.!
>>
>> Selene
>
> Um... don't get me wrong... this is going to sound harsh, maybe... but 
> yes, you might want to reconsider your plans for writing cookbooks if 
> you don't want to eat well, drink, if not like a fish, at least 
> moderately well, get paid to do something you love and pack it in at a 
> sprightly and juvenile 90-ish... 

I wasn't all that serious, actually.  Somebody has to step up to the 
plate, after all.  

> I'm hoping, for the sake of those personally affected by Julia Child's 
> passing, that they can weigh their love for her and the joy she gave 
> them and her inspiration that they still carry, and find that it 
> outweighs the grief. For myself, I remember her best from my 
> childhood, dealing with very early Muppets in glorious back-and-white, 
> and I always wondered how she did that trick with the multiple, 
> time-accelerating ovens... ;-) 

I learned from that one!  Notice how I had everything ready for the Food 
Network video crew in stages, where the "professional" dame in the Pecan 
Pie segment made them wait around all darned day.  Ha.

> And then, one has to really wonder what the world would be like if she 
> had become a spy ;-) ...

I think she would have been quite successful at anything she put her 
mind to do.  Everyone thinks that female spies all look like Mata Hari 
or Pussy Galore, after all.  I have a gal pal who works as a secretary 
for the FBI who is certainly not of the James Bond Girl ilk, we accuse 
her of being a real secret master spy because nobody would ever suspect 
her of being one.  She just smiles sadly and shakes her head at us silly 
people.  Or maybe because we guessed right and she cannot tell us?  The 
World Will Never Know.  <g>

Selene