who cared about food and wine. paul would dismiss big john as a conservative businessman. 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 courts 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. we drove through this beautiful french countryside. i was just beside myself with excitement seeing these ancient
she changed everything. we need to tell how important this woman is, was, will be. how do you know somebody s influential? go to the home of people that love cooking and tell me which book you see on the shelves. and the book of julia child is the one that keeps showing up. julia really paved the way for this incredible moment of food and pop culture, making this very domestic profession something extremely popular. all right, we re here! we ve got eight tablespoons of butter. they re green beans. stand back. whoo! a lot of us write cookbooks and do tv as julia did, but she got the train out of the station. chefs, we used to be in dark kitchens with not a lot of
my point is to make cooking easy for people so they can enjoy it and do it. it should be and is, i think, everybody s pleasure. i think you should have no fear of cooking. that s terribly important that you must be a fearless cook. and the more you learn how to cook, the easier it is and the more fun it is. cooking and food is important. being fed by our mothers minutes after we are born, that warmth. that s why we have this need to be filling the people we love. that gives me a sense of i belong, i m here, i am part of something bigger. . . cooking is about bringing people to the table. and once you surround yourself with people you love, that s how
gives it a lovely flavor, and it helps it brown nicely. french food is just wonderful. i hadn t been turned on by anything until i got into french food let me stand next to your fire you can poach it or you can roast it the old-fashioned way in the oven. or you can roast it on the spit. i find that if people aren t interest in the food i m not interest in the them. they seem to lack something in the way of personality. yeah, get on with it, baby i m going to turn this chicken around, so whenever you think of roast chicken, you think of it this way. that s what i m talking about. now dig this. just love that food.
have been like for her to discover food and love and everything else all at the same time. what a whoosh of joy and life it must have been for her . unconditional surrender and the return of happier days. after the bomb dropped the war ended really immediately. we went back home and decided we get married. so we had a nice wedding. paul child and john mcwilliams were at either ends of the spectrum. julia s father would dismiss paul as an artist and liberal