If you’ve read last week’s review you’re expecting my thoughts on some cooking-related memoirs. Everything today is about a woman I’ve come to admire: Julia Child. So let me be honest here — before 2009, “Julia Child” (I use quotation marks because I had a very limited Julia Child schema prior to) sat somewhere in my consciousness right between vague images of her cooking program and images of Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child on SNL. I think this is because when her shows were popular, I may have been more interested in Saturday morning cartoons than cooking shows. Even by the late ’90s when I was coming around to the whole idea of cooking and culinary pursuits, I was more interested in Martha Stewart (if you want to read an interesting piece comparing the two click here). It wasn’t really until 2009 and the release of the film Julie & Julia that I suddenly found a new interest in this enigmatic woman because she was shown to be so normal, so human. Unlike the larger-than-life persona which exists.

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