Remembering Ms Julia Child
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I remember Julia Child from childhood ventures into PBS and her presentations — sometimes punctuated with raucous and rowdy episodic increments and always resulting in something delictable ... which was one of my favorite outcomes.
I lost touch with her during my young adulthood through those Navy days and resumed somewhere in the technical college instructor era.
And Julia grew into my heart more with each passing year.
Julia Carolyn McWilliams Child was an outstanding American chef, author, and prodigious television personality.
She tantalized the world with her French cuisine as well has her first cookbook entitled Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Her television programs were many and varied but always concerned the most delicious foods beginning with The French Chef, which was first aired in 1963 ... when I was 8 years old.
My last encounter with her was on the show of Emeril Legasse, yet another of those many gastronomic experts I've come to admire over the years. She was obviously getting on in years but just as present and radiant as I ever saw her.
She passed on this day in 2004 after an illustrious career which will be difficult for any chef to surpass. Rest in peace.