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

[Marcha]

I hate to burst your bubble but Julia and her husband both worked for the
OSS during WWII.    She was one of the few people that I was awed by.  I
will miss her.   Bertha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Fox-Davis" <selene at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: [Servicenet] A passing of a foodie giant


>
> 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
>
>
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