shortcuts or to do things by half measures. okay. it s not working this way, we ll have to do it all over again do it all over again. i sent a copy of this book of recipes to a friend of mine. they offered us a contract for a book. so we were delighted. then, paul childs, at the time, we didn t have the means we have now, email or anything. so it was all by mail. simca would type recipes, send them to julia. julia would send her own ideas and back and forth. it was a tremendous amount of work. it took 12 years to write the book.
julia child became part of what was called our board of advocates. she opened up the idea that we could have people known for something other than health care but who understood the importance of women and women s rights and women s access to health care be part of this movement. julia s audience were women from all walks of life. they were in rural america. they were in big cities. and the power of her saying, i support planned parenthood, i stand with planned parenthood was really important. the crowd at the supermarket was primed and ready for the cook s arrival. jockeying for the best position to buy the limited number of autographed cookbooks. but a group outside was busy protesting what they feel are far more important matters than how to best broil a beef. we re out here to let the people know what stores, what agencies, and businesses are supporting the abortionist
we d get married so we had a nice wedding. paul child and john mick williams were at either end of the spectrum. julia s father would dismiss paul as a liberal who cared about food and wine. julia s father was very republican. when julia married paul, she became a democrat. my grandfather was, what? that s not supposed to happen. after the war, the diplomatic corp sent people abroad and paul spoke beautiful french so he was sent over to paris and that was where our wonderful life together really began.
rules. when you re served, you eat. boy, this looks tender. she had the fastest fork of anybody i ve ever eaten with. reaching across and tasting your food sometimes without invitation to do so. she just reached out and grabbed it. never had julia child eat off my plate before. are there any foods that you don t like? i don t like things that are not fresh and not well prepared and cooked by someone who doesn t know what they re doing. look at that. isn t that nice? now the best part of it is the eating. okay. very good. that s great. when friends think twice before asking you to dinner just give me a good steak or hamburger and i m happy. this is my kind of gal. you re not a health certainly not. i hate health food of any kind.
sent to to mi fflin. and they rejected it. they said to her, nobody wants to read a treatise on french cooking. people want a mix and stir cook can cookbook, they want something that s convenient. cookbooks at that moment in time would not go particularly deep in terms of explaining recipes and julia s book was a very different proposition than anyone had ever seen before. that was very disappointing to have them turn it down. terrible. she really had great hopes that it was going to take off. at the same time, paul was deeply frustrated with the bureaucracy, and the petty politics in the u.s. embassy. he was called back to washington and was accused of being a communist and homosexual. the accusations were untrue, but