Monday, 10/18/04

I learned today that Julia Child's last meal was French onion soup.

Her death was very sad. Julia Child was sort of like my Fred Rogers. I was disappointed that her closest modern heir, noting her passage on his garishly colored blog, perpetuated the chicken-dropping anecdote that she firmly denied ever happened.

Better to remember her with this remarkable New Yorker profile from 1976. Or perhaps with a nice French onion soup -- I was startled to find that her recipe calls for "grated swiss or parmesan" instead of gruyere. 07:19PM «

Bits pushed by Movable Type