by JHH60 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:49 pm
Appropriate you should show a photo of Julia. One of her great achievements was to take the kind of French recipes that only a cordon bleu trained chef could follow (e.g., prepare a brown stock. Mix with roux until thickened. Season.) and explain them in detail to American audiences so that an average housewife with no professional training could follow them. Old vs. new school cooking guidebooks, as it were.
She used to live nearby when I lived in Cambridge, MA by the way. She was a very tall woman (6'+). She must have stood out a bit when she was an OSS undercover agent in Paris.