Julia Child was a wonderfully lively fixture on early public television. She taught american how to enjoy cooking in the french style, complete with lots of sips of wine while cooking, and a lively willingness to pick dropped food off the floor, wipe it off and put it back in the skillet. She was not compulsive at all, but joyful in her television series.
Neither the movie nor her television series revealed her secret service during WWII where she spent a time in India and China. In fact, i just now read that she was posted to Kunming! http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB121910345904851347
I also like the relationship with her husband, Paul, at least as it is portrayed in the movie. They both supported each other's work and they shared in adventures with a real zest for life. All qualities you possess, by the way.
They do mention in the movie, quite a few times actually, their posts in China. In fact, Paul cites it as a reason that Senator McCarthy wouldn't like their presence in foreign embassies. They did make a rather precious couple, it's true, though I felt that in the movie, Julia was always a bit too naive to be endearing and consequently shifted the balance of the relationship so that it seemed like Paul got a slightly shorter straw. But then again, he got to taste test all those recipes, and really who could complain about that?! <3
Julia Child was a wonderfully lively fixture on early public television. She taught american how to enjoy cooking in the french style, complete with lots of sips of wine while cooking, and a lively willingness to pick dropped food off the floor, wipe it off and put it back in the skillet. She was not compulsive at all, but joyful in her television series.
ReplyDeleteNeither the movie nor her television series revealed her secret service during WWII where she spent a time in India and China. In fact, i just now read that she was posted to Kunming!
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB121910345904851347
I also like the relationship with her husband, Paul, at least as it is portrayed in the movie. They both supported each other's work and they shared in adventures with a real zest for life.
All qualities you possess, by the way.
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They do mention in the movie, quite a few times actually, their posts in China. In fact, Paul cites it as a reason that Senator McCarthy wouldn't like their presence in foreign embassies. They did make a rather precious couple, it's true, though I felt that in the movie, Julia was always a bit too naive to be endearing and consequently shifted the balance of the relationship so that it seemed like Paul got a slightly shorter straw. But then again, he got to taste test all those recipes, and really who could complain about that?!
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