quote: Jason Black

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Julia Child, long time cooking phenom passed away in her sleep at the age of 91.

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You don't have to eat only rice cakes to live long. She showed us how to make and enjoy heavenly food -- now she can do it up there. Bon Appetit, Julia!
 

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 08-13-2004, 11:26 AM:
 
Julia Child was a one-of-a-kind.

If you've never seen Dan Aykroyd's Julia Child sketch on Saturday Night Live (from the 70s), you missed one of the funniest things ever shown on TV.
 

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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 08-13-2004, 12:40 PM:
 
My stomach grieves. I think I will have more butter.

I've cooked things I have seen her do on TV. They were tasty too.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 08-13-2004, 04:23 PM:
 
she was cool...
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-13-2004, 04:56 PM:
 
Yeah, how sad. She was cool.

Mrs. Doubtfire reminded me of her.

>>> Phil
 

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Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 08-13-2004, 07:47 PM:
 
Used to watch her shows on PBS. She was an original. There will never be another like her.

Goodbye to a Great Chef!


 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-13-2004, 08:06 PM:
 
And who ever said that butter and butter and wine were bad for you
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-15-2004, 12:47 AM:
 

quote: Gordon

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who ever said that butter and butter and wine were bad

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Yes, just like smoking. Mel Blanc smoked 2 or 3 packs a day since he was 12, and he lived well into his eighties. (Yeah, I know... 'if he didn't smoke, he might have lived to be 100'... blah-blah-blah.)
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-16-2004, 02:06 AM:
 
Mel Blanc quit, & was involved in several anti-smoking organizations.

I met him in the 80s when he was touring a one-man show, & asked him if he regretted ever starting smoking.

[BLANC, PANTOMIME]

Holds up one finger briefly for attention, reaches into shirt pocket

Removes a plastic click-typ pen like those given away for advertising with the names of banks, etc. printed on the side

Holds pen up to be read, imprinted there is

DON'T SMOKE

Revolves the pen slightly to show the next line printed under it

FUCK

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He may have bummed a cigarette now & then, though.
He was a lot of fun. I went to a restaurant with him & a bunch of radio folks afterwards to eat; that poor waitress got more from that table that night than she probably got in two years of regular customers.
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 08-17-2004, 10:44 AM:
 
"I never did ask her (Julia Child) if this actually did happen on her show, but when she was cooking a duck, supposedly she dropped it and picked it right up and just kind of patted its butt off and said, 'It's fine.'" --Christopher Gross, chef at Christopher's Phoenix

It is in a little hallway outside the studio of radio station WBEZ, while waiting to make a midmorning guest spot, that Julia Child is asked if that did happen on her show-if she actually dropped the duck, etc.

"I never did," she says in the ever-startled voice that is uniquely her own. "People say, 'But I saw you do that.' All I did once was, I was flipping a potato pancake and it flipped onto the stove and I picked it up and put it back in the pan and I said, 'You're alone in the kitchen'

..."It's interesting when people say, 'I saw you do it.' Or that 'I saw you pick up the bottle of wine and take a swig of it'- which I would never do. On television."
 

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