(1912–2004)
U.S. chef, author, and television personality“After a day of giving up cigarettes I have decided what the hell, and am back on the old routine. I found that my smokeless yesterday didn’t bother me at all. It just seemed, merely, silly to deny myself that pleasure. I think it is really the adult substitute for thumbsucking.”
more infosource: July 1954 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 183.
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medium: letter
“Bosom not as copious as she would wish, but has noticed that Botticelli bosoms are not big either. Legs OK, according to husband. Freckles.”
more infosource: Describing herself in a February 23, 1953 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 78.
category: body, book review, breasts, freckles, legs, self
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notes: Quoted in Dwight Garner's review of the book in the New York Times, "Friends Who Didn’t Mince Words," December 9, 2010.
“Before marriage I was wildly interested in sex, but since joining up with my old goat, it has taken its proper position in my life.”
more infosource: October 28, 1953 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 142.
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“The thing about food is you’re a much happier person if you eat well and treasure your meals.”
more infosource: “Food: Everyone’s in the Kitchen,” Time, November 25, 1966.
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category: eating, food, happiness, meal
medium: magazine article
“Every woman should kiss her butcher.”
more infosource: “Food: Everyone’s in the Kitchen,” Time, November 25, 1966.
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category: butcher, chef, cooking, food, kiss, meat
medium: magazine article
“The idea was to take French cooking out of cuckoo land and bring it down to where everybody is. You can’t turn a sow’s ear into veal Orloff, but you can do something very good with a sow’s ear.”
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