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America is a culture that loves good food. The pro-liferation of successful cooking shows on TV like “Master Chef ” and “Chopped” has given rise to the “celebrity chef.” Yet perhaps the most beloved chef since the advent of television isn’t on TV an-ymore. That’s Julia Child.
• She was born in 1912 in Pasadena, California. Her father John was a graduate of Princeton and a California real estate investor, and her mother, also named Julia, was a paper-company heiress.
• In her youth, Child attended the elite Katherine Branson School for Girls in San Francisco. She was the tallest student in her class at 6 feet, 2 inch-es.
• At school, Child was known as a high-spirited girl who loved playing pranks. She was also an ac-complished athlete, especially skilled at golf and tennis.
• Child attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her intended career had little to
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Tidbits of Greeley & West Weld CountyPage 2 To advertise call 970.475.4829do with cooking. She wanted to be a writer in-stead.
• “There were some famous women novelists in those days,” Child said, “and I intended to be one.” Alas, though she wrote often and submitted man-uscripts regularly to the New Yorker, none were ever published.
• After graduating, Child tried her hand at adver-tising while working for a successful home fur-nishings company. It didn’t last long, as Child was promptly fired for “gross insubordination.”
• When World War II broke out, Child volunteered for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Wash-ington, D.C. She performed assignments all over the world, including stays in China and Sri Lan-ka.
• While in Sri Lanka in 1945, Child began seeing her future husband, Paul, a fellow employee of the OSS. Child and Paul married after the war in Sep-tember of 1946.
• Paul and Child moved to France in 1948, when Paul was assigned to work at the American Em-bassy in Paris. It was there that Child’s love for cooking came into full bloom. She was quoted as saying, “The whole experience was an opening up of the soul and spirit for me . . . I was hooked, and for life, as it turned out.”
• In Paris, Child enrolled in the world-renowned “Le Cordon Bleu” cooking school. After six months of training, she chose to open her own school with two fellow classmates.
• They named the school “L’Ecole de Trois Gour-mandes,” which translates to “The School of the Three Gourmands.”
• Child and the other two founders of the school set out to create a cookbook of French cuisine that might be understood and employed by regu-lar folk.
• The two-volume cookbook was released in 1961, entitled “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” The book was incredibly successful, remaining the bestselling cookbook for over five years.
• The book has since become a favored teaching tool at cooking schools throughout the world. Yet there was a time when it looked like it might never be published at all.
• The writing of the book was a grueling and frus-trating 10-year process for Child and her collabo-rators. She would spend months trying to perfect recipes for just a single ingredient. She wrote to her principal collaborator, Simca Beck, dur-ing her frustration: “I’ve just poached two more eggs and thrown them down the toilet.”
• The initial draft of the book was turned down by the first publisher, as were many subsequent drafts. Only after of-fering it to a differ-ent publisher, Alfred Knopf, was it picked
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up for publication.• Child’s first television appearance was on a hum-
ble Boston public television station in 1962. She cooked an omelet on air. After a surprisingly pos-itive and vocal response, she was invited to do a series. Her initial pay was about $50 a show.
• Child’s show, “The French Chef,” grew quickly beyond those humble beginnings. Soon after its initial airings, the show was syndicated to 96 stations. The show was both a commercial and a critical hit. In 1964, Child was presented with the George Foster Peabody Award for her work on the show. Two years later, she was given an Emmy Award as well.
• “The French Chef ” was produced and directed by Russ Morash. It ran for 199 episodes between 1963 and 1966.
• “The French Chef ” was just one of many shows Child appeared on during her long career. Other programs included “Julia Child and Company,” “Julia Child and More Company” and “Dinner at Julia’s.” She was also a regular guest on “Good Morning, America.”
• Child wrote many other cookbooks after her ini-tial success. Among these were “In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs,” “Baking with Julia,” “Julia’s Delicious Little Dinners” and “Julia’s Casual Din-ners.” Many of these were accompanied by their own TV specials.
• Julia Child died on August 13, 2004. She was just two days shy of her 92nd birthday. She was re-membered by her family and friends as a person of great generosity who loved to teach others. Though she once mourned her “lack of talent,” Child left an indelible legacy in the kitchens of people around the world.
• In addition to inspiring both the book and film, “Julie and Julia,” Child’s life inspired an exhibit entitled “Julia Child’s Kitchen” to be installed at the National Museum of American History.
• The installation is 20 feet by 14 feet. These were the dimensions of Child’s kitchen in Massachu-setts. Though the walls and floor were created for the exhibit, everything else found there is from Child’s own former kitchen. The arrangement of everything found inside was assembled exactly to replicate Child’s original workspace.
• There are over 1,200 individual pieces from Child in the exhibit, including equipment housed in the cabinets and drawers. These objects are not vis-ible to the general public, but hundreds of others still are.
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• The 4.3-mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge takes route US 50/US 301 across the Chesapeake Bay between Kent Island and Annapolis. It provides Maryland with a direct link to the Washington D.C., Baltimore and Annapolis areas.
• The bridge is commonly referred to as Bay Bridge, yet its official name is The William Pres-ton Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge, named after the Governor of Maryland when construction first began.
• Before the bridge was constructed, Maryland residents were forced to cross the Chesapeake by boat to get to and from the Eastern Shore.
• The idea for a Chesapeake bridge was first intro-duced in 1927 but was quickly disregarded when the Great Depression struck. It was re-intro-duced in 1938, but with the outbreak of WWII, it was put on hold again.
• Governor William Preston Lane commissioned the building of the bridge in 1947, and in early 1949, construction finally began.
• The first span, eastbound, opened for traffic in July of 1952, followed by the westbound span in June of 1973. The eastbound span cost $45 million to build and at the time was the world’s longest continuous over-water steel structure and the world’s third-longest bridge. The west-bound span’s total cost was $128 million.
• During its first year of service, the eastbound span carried around 1.2 million vehicles. By 1996, the bridge was seeing 20.5 million vehicles per year.
• The westbound span stands about 25 feet taller than its predecessor.
• The bridge is actually split as two side-by-side bridges, eastbound with two lanes and west-bound with three. All lanes are reversible and the extra lane is usually given to the area of heavier traffic.
• On average, the bridge carries approximately 65,000 vehicles every day. The bridge’s traffic capacity is 1,500 vehicles per lane, per hour.
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How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb? None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
How many archaeologists does it take to change a light bulb?Well, actually, it only takes a couple to remove the old bulb, but then they get so involved in studying the old bulb (especially in trying to cor-relate its appearance with all other burned-out bulbs within a 1000 km radius), that they never get around to putting the new bulb in.
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Break Time!• It was British-American poet T.S. Eliot
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• Each fingernail on the Statue of Liberty is nearly a foot long.
• Filmmaker George Lucas is arguably best known for his “Star Wars” franchise, but he also directed “American Graffiti.” During the making of that earlier film, he desig-nated each reel of film with an R before the reel’s number, and each instance of dialog was prefixed with a D. At one point dur-ing the sound mixing, the sound designer needed to use Reel 2, Dialog 2, and so asked for “R2D2.” Lucas liked the sound of it so much that he used it for the name of a robot character in his later work.
• You can tell a cranberry is ripe when it can be dribbled like a basketball.
• Those who study such things (and seem-ingly have too much time on their hands) say that a quarter has 119 grooves around the outside edge, while dimes have 118.
• Have you ever heard of a woman named Thelma Pickles? Unless you’re a somewhat obsessive fan of the Beatles, probably not. She was John Lennon’s first girlfriend.
• Among those who play basketball profes-sionally, the men average 6 feet, 7 inches tall, while the women average an even 6 feet.
• If you’re a vegetarian, you’re part of the 3 percent of American adults who shun meat. In India, though, you’d be part of a much larger minority; nearly a third of the population of that country is vegetarian.
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You’ve seen this lady. She’s the one with the unruly little brat in the child-seat of her grocery store shopping cart. The kid screams bloody murder because his mommy won’t let him open the family sized potato chip bag and eat – so she lets him scream Then she watches without emotion as her little ankle biter tosses a loaf of bread over the side.
You think, “What a won-derful mother! Just look how patient she is with that darling child.” Or not.
Now, I’m not suggesting a mother should exercise corporal punishment to a 3-year-old in a grocery store, nor am I saying parents should not have patience with little kids.
What I am suggesting is that there is a point at which patience becomes cowardice, when tolerance for bad acts is really just an excuse for spinelessness. The impish toddler in the grocery store is just one illustration. Here are two more:
When you allow a medical condition to go untreated because you’re afraid of knowing what it might really be. Men are really good at this one. We think we are showing bravado by say-ing, “Oh, it’s nothing. I’ll be fine.” When we re-ally mean, “I’m scared to death to find out what this thing really is.”
Another illustration of when patience is really cowardice is when citizens willingly submit to an increasingly authoritarian government. Listen my friend, it is NOT a matter of patience to sit
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idly by and mumble a few words of discontent as your freedoms are eroded and your republic ruined.
Silence and indulgence for those in the act of destroying a country and a culture is neither tolerance nor patience – it is gutlessness. People afraid to speak up, to fight back, to stand up for what they know needs to be done are cowards; those who rise up to speak and to act are the audacious, the bold, the lionhearted.
Of course patience is a wonderful thing and in many situations of our daily lives we need more patience. St. Augustine said, “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” It’s absolutely true. And the opposite of patience is anxiety or
impetuosity and those are not helpful qualities – that’s why patience is a virtue. But when patience is extended for the sake of personal comfort or laziness or fear, it is no longer a virtue, it is a vice, it is cow-ardice.
So whether you are dealing with an unruly child, a possible serious medical condition or a government about to take away
your freedoms, the call is not for concession but courage, not for sensitivity but for strength, not for benevolence but bravery.
Will you heed the call?
PS: Thirty-plus years ago we had one of those unruly little children who frequently challenged our authority in a grocery store. I just want you to know that he’s grown up to be a fine gentle-man.
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