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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Susan Fox-Davis:

>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.

Yes, I did catch that. Good on ya!

>
>>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>

Not until she's outed by somebody in the White House, that is ;-). 
But I trust your pal is not a 6'5" woman trying to remain 
inconspicuous by hunching?

Now all day I'm going to hear Julia's voice saying, "Tell me again 
about the missile emplacements, Mr. Secretary! And talk into the 
vols-au-vent... no, no, not the profiteroles, those are the little 
pate-a-chou pastries... I mean those little puff-pastry ones..."

Adamantius

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