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Breaking news…Julia Child was a spy!
It’s the big food news of the day. Julia Child was a spy!
But after reading “My Life in France,” Child’s memoir, I’m not surprised. This is because she tells you that she was in the OSS during the war-a widely known fact, at that. Of course she didn’t divulge or anyone else for that matter that she was a spy or anything until today. But it isn’t shocking news.
Of course, that is just me. Yum Sugar, the Boston Globe and others are widely printing it as breaking news. However, all it adds to is Child’s already awesomeness-going to Le Cordon Blue, writing “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” being in the first cooking show, having your kitchen in the Smithsonian and the list goes on.
I never had the chance to meet her and the Smithsonian was closed, when I went to visit. I vaguely remember watching her as a kid on PBS, when it still aired. I’ve read “Julie and Julia: My year of cooking dangerously” and “My Life in France.” I love them both and highly recommend them to anyone because they are wonderful stories about women trying to find themselves and experience that revelation through cooking. Both books inspire me to keep learning about food and going after what I want, a true lesson that I love reading and hearing about.
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