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I serve tables at the engaging LA GRANDE ORANGE CAFE of Pasadena. The owner of the restaurant is married to an artist/art collector. One of my favorite pieces from our collection is the sweet print of Julia Child and her husband as seen below.
Julia Child is a local hero because she grew up in Pasadena, California. I admit that until two weeks ago, I only knew of Julia from her cooking shows. Curiosity finally got the best of me and and I turned to the google machine for answers. Julia is positively fascinating! She led an incredibly interesting life, and like her cooking it was full of flava'.
Some of my favorite Julia tidbits:
- Julia was six feet, two inches (Denied from U.S. Navy because she was too tall!)
- Earned a B.A. degree in History from Smith College
- Joined the Secret Intelligence Division after the bombing of Pearl Harbor as a researcher.
- Child's primary French dining experience consisting of; oysters and Sole was described as a "culinary revelation." The meal forever changed Julia and the course of her life.
- Shaken by life altering food, she attended culinary school and brought French cooking methods to the United States
For more Julia Child snippets click {here.} I hope you enjoyed learning about this Pasadena trail blazer. I feel a strange kinship with Julia because I have recently had a culinary awakening myself. No longer am I satisfied by the bland and tasteless. My culinary credo is to create food and recipes that delight and inspire even those who aren't vegetarian/pescatarian. I want them to want to eat my food as eagerly as a they would a juicy steak.
