And just found out they removed it. Oh well, eh bien, tant pis!
Last thing I was talking about was Julia Child. So I will copy that posting here.
Here it goes:
JULIA CHILD - A WILD ONE
I've been working on translating Julia Child's and Alex Proudhomme's My Life in France. With the Julie & Julia movie already being advertised, it's time to talk about her. I had never heard of Julia Child before, and now it seems like she's one of the family. In the movie, Julie says that Julia virtually saved her life: she was not happy with the life she led before and now she saw everything in a new light, thanks to Julia's joie de vivre.Julia Child was a tough woman bordering on wild! She faced things a lot of men would not have faced. She worked for the OSS - which was a secret service agency of the American Government at the time of World War II, which later became the current CIA - and met her husband, Paul, an artist and exhibit organizer, while working there. Together, they traveled the world, when Paul was offered a position at the USIS, the United States Information Service at the Embassy in Paris - and fell in love with Paris and the French cuisine bourgeoise. She wrote this 750 page cookbook in association with two French friends, and it took 10 years of 'cookery and bookery' to finish it, and get it published by the Alfred Knopf publishers in New York. All recipes in the cookbook were painstakingly tested. Few people would have undertaken such a huge task. Writing a book is difficult enough without you having to test every single thing you put in it! But she did. She wanted people to have something she was sure was good.
While reading and rewriting this book in Portuguese (I'm from Brazil, as you will see, if you read my profile), I learned that in French cuisine it is very important to taste what you are doing. I thought tasting the food while you make it was just done because the cook was gluttonous :); but in fact it is a very effective quality-control method. I guess will be trying everything I make in the kitchen from now on; trying and approving before I put it on the table! If you all see this movie, Julie & Julia, with Meryl Streep as Julia Child, you will see how, with the right encouragement, a person can go from totally indifferent about the world to someone who is worried about quality and who wants everything to be just wonderful.
For that was Julia: she wanted to wow the world, yes, but before anything else she had to wow herself to be sure she was giving to others something exceptionally good.
More about Julia later... Bon Appetit!
