I am ridiculously excited that Eating Europe is putting together a Julia Child tour in Paris.
I liked the Julia part of the movie very much....but Julie is a bitch in real life I hear.
Once I got into Child on youtube I did a search for tours and found these super expensive multi day things I could not afford. But there is no way a day tour in Paris will cost thousands.
Share your Julia love here.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 21, 2021 2:07 PM |
I have a few of her cookbooks. Many recipes take advance planning and maybe starting days ahead of time. But the techniques are not so difficult and the dish always turns out really wonderful. I’ve done a few of them multiple times they were so good. And they build confidence in the kitchen.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 19, 2021 9:05 AM |
R2
Yet the Julie of Julie and Julia had a reputation for being awful in the kitchen. I wonder why when two people follow the same recipe one can make it truly awful?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 19, 2021 9:10 AM |
I don't have much of a story, but I went to a hippyish school in Cambridge before I brilliantly decided that living with my father in Salt Lake Fucking City would be much cooler, and she came to bake bread with us. I don't remember very much other than being freaked out by her voice, her shoes, and the fact that she was taller than the male teachers.
My mother was one of the classroom volunteers that day and she told me later that Mme Child pulled the do-you-know-who-I-am card on one of the kids who wasn't following her instruction for shaping the bread. After the kid crossed a certain boundary, she said something to the effect of: "One day you'll look back on this and say, 'oh, what a fool I was!'"
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 19, 2021 9:13 AM |
I wonder if that kid even remembers R4
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 19, 2021 9:27 AM |
Huge homophobe. I hope she's rotting in hell's kitchen, and I don't mean NYC.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 19, 2021 10:41 AM |
Maybe, maybe not R6.
I think that whole thing was part of her generation and blown out of proportion in her case.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 19, 2021 12:22 PM |
R6 does this soften your heart a bit?
Child’s attitude underwent an abrupt reversal in 1986, when her longtime lawyer, Bob Johnson, died of AIDS-related pneumonia. Johnson, only 46, had lived a closeted gay life. A horrified Child changed her thinking. She is quoted below at an AIDS benefit: “But what of those lonely ones? The ones with no friends or family to ease the slow pain of dying?”
She also financially supported God's love, we deliver because she could not stand 'those poor boys going hungry.'
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 19, 2021 3:24 PM |
I guess the hater wants to hate without acknowledging that Julia got over her dislike of gay folks.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 19, 2021 6:46 PM |
Julia's famous potato flip fuck up. She didn't have "the courage of [her] convictions." But I loved her honesty in owning up to it, and improvising an alternative outcome for the potato.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 19, 2021 7:45 PM |
R10, good clip.
Julia made many mistakes and always turned them into something else. I love the honesty of her shows that is so lacking in the fake reality of today.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 19, 2021 8:25 PM |
I love Julia, but my parents are much more attentive to Jacques Pépin. I think Julia was a bit more old-fashioned and Americanized while Pépin is bleeding edge.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 19, 2021 8:35 PM |
The French Chef was always on our TV.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 19, 2021 8:41 PM |
John Candy's Julia was far superior, r1...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 19, 2021 8:46 PM |
She was a homophobic cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 19, 2021 8:53 PM |
Julia and Paul used to shop at a bookstore I managed back in the late 80s-early 90s, and they were obviously still very much in love.
A couple of years later, my partner and I attended the theater one night when Jean Stapleton was portraying Julia in a short play entitled Bon Appetit! Julia was also in attendance that night, and we chatted about books at intermission. When she learned my partner was a budding chef, she told us we should come to dinner sometime, and we’d set a date the next time she came in to buy books. Paul passed away shortly thereafter, and I never met her again. I heard that she had moved back to California.
In my experience, Julia was no homophobe. She was lovely - a bit odd, certainly, but kind, gracious and down-to-earth.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 19, 2021 9:00 PM |
Some cunts on here cannot get over the fact that she was a product of her time. She did come in out inf full force when AIDS impacted her lawyer and changed her tune entirely.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 20, 2021 8:20 AM |
It turns out Julia was a Datalounger.
For all Julia’s prejudice, however, when she met gay men whose appearance and body language were what she called “normal,” or straight, much of her disapproval evaporated. What she really disliked was effeminacy in men—a caricature that made it clear how they spurned the male-female differences and rituals she so relished.
We all hate the femmy boys.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 20, 2021 2:51 PM |
R18 and R19:
I don't hate feminine men and I am gay.
Furthermore, Julia Child went above and beyond her homophobia. During her career and in her personal life, she uttered homophobic slurs. Many people, of her generation, never used insults of this nature. Furthermore, there is positively no excuse to use such language to demean people. Old age is no excuse. She was the same homophobic phony at age 20 as he was in her 70s.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 20, 2021 3:08 PM |
I may have written this here before, but we were neighbors in Cambridge during her later years and friendly with an older couple who lived next door to the Childs on Irving Street in Norton's Woods, close to the American Academy. I met Julia briefly a couple of times at their parties and have a lot of stories about her, but my favorite was that of Julia and our hostess.
She told me that when the show was still taped in Julia's home kitchen (so long ago, the 1960's, that WGBH kept a lot of the TV and electrical equipment and the engineers in an old school bus parked in the driveway on Irving Street in order to tape the show) Julia and her minions would have to prep and sometimes cook more of whatever dish they were making and filming, and she always had leftovers. For years, my friend said she'd be outside gardening or hanging out laundry when she'd hear that unmistakable voice on the other side of the fence saying something like, "Peg, I've made far too many servings of duck with cherries. Do you have room? Will you take some?" Peg said she'd fed her family, very happily, with Julia Child's leftovers for years.
During the last years before Julia moved home to Pasadena, a devoted Vietnamese couple took care of her full-time at home. By this time, Paul was in a nursing home. And as she was six foot five, a little scoliosis didn't make her that much shorter but it changed the weight distribution with her upper body pitched forward. One afternoon as I was leaving the drugstore on Massachusetts Avenue there was Julia, walking with some difficulty, supported by the husband and wife with one under each armpit, like human crutches holding her upright.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 20, 2021 4:45 PM |
Lovely story R21.
The hater just wants to hate despite Julia doing benefits to help patients and giving a ton of money to gay charity, single handedly keeping God's love, We deliver alive for several years.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 20, 2021 7:38 PM |
R22 it’s ridiculous. If there’s no hope for redemption, what’s the use of trying? One man’s life made her rich and his death made her examine her prejudices and she changed them. She was extraordinarily generous with her time and support for dozens of charities, among them several serving patients with HIV.
She was a woman in a man’s world and sadly, reflected the prejudices of her generation. I knew dozens like her, male and female. That she was capable of doing a 180-degree turn in old age is to be applauded. So many of her peers never did.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 20, 2021 11:30 PM |
Sarah of 'Weeknight Meals" on Create Channel, who apprenticed with Julia originally, is one of my fave TV chef presenters who seems to have inherited Julia's spirit of exhibiting a bit of a "What the hell? We'll figure out how to make it work" attitude in her television programs kitchen-produced recipes and demonstrations.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 21, 2021 2:33 AM |
I admire her accomplishments, and I've enjoyed watching her over the years...but she doesn't hold a candle to Jacque Pepin. I could watch Pepin 24/7.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 21, 2021 3:05 AM |
I just re watched Julie and Julia, showed what a mess Julie was.
She wrote a book about her affair and her husbands 'sexual interests' ...I wonder if he is gay.
Just saw a short preview of the new HBO series about Child. I think it will be good.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 21, 2021 7:14 AM |
There must be a datalounger who lives in Paris who would want this job.
I know we are not all in the US.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 21, 2021 8:38 AM |
Rather liked the PBS show featuring Jacques Pepin and Julia Child.
On another note found an old paperback copy of Julia Child's cookbook in a box of books someone moving house left for recycling. Haven't tried any of the recipes but do mean to one of these days.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 21, 2021 10:32 AM |
Jacque is in his 80s and still does short cooking video for youtube.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 21, 2021 2:07 PM |
