Happy 100th Birthday Julia! . She was born on August 15, 1912, in
Pasadena, California, and died August 4, 2004, just before her 92nd birthday, in Montecito,
California.
I was lucky enough to meet Julia and take a class from her. She was amazing, friendly and full of wit! I have most of her cookbooks but, this is my most prized. It is the first cookbook, first print, 1961. I bought it used, as I was 9 years old. It is not signed :-(
However, I was able to have her personalize a copy of "The Way To Cook", at a class I took from her in 1989. She will always be special to me.
Now, out in time for what would have been the late chef’s 100th birthday
on Aug. 15, today, Bob Spitz has written "Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia
Child", a soup-to-nuts biography of her life. Spitz takes readers from
her childhood in Pasadena, Calif., to her days at Smith College and from
her work for America’s first intelligence agency during World War II to
her introduction to serious cooking in France. While the book begins
with her first television appearance, it backtracks to her youth, and
readers don’t get to her enrollment in cooking classes at Paris’ Le
Cordon Bleu until more than a third of the way into the book. Happy Birthday Julia!
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To me a house is not a home without good food. My Mom was a excellent cook, and I grew up with homemade organic meals everyday. I didn't know any different! We raised our beef, chicken, pigs, ducks, goats, milk cows, fruit's, berries and vegetables. My Dad and my brother's were/are hunters, so, add to the diet, deer, elk, moose, carabou, bear and all species of fish. My Mom pasteurized the milk and made us fresh whipped topping and fresh butter from the cream. My jobs were many on the farm, but one of my favorites was to gather the eggs from the chickens, without getting pecked!! Then, bring them into the farmhouse and candle, (to look for embryo development). My egg candler looked like this.
After, the candling, I would weigh them and put them into cartons according to size and weight. I loved my job!
Fond memories of growing up in the country on organic food. I didn't know anything else!!
Today, I am offering you another main course to make on your rotisserie. In past blogs I have covered the craze over bacon. This combines bacon, Gorgonzola and pork. It is another easy recipe you can make on a week night.
