Julia And Me
Julia Child has been a favorite topic for several weeks now in the blogosphere, largely on the strength of the new movie Julia and Julia. She was a delightfully funny and perky lady, well known in America but not so much in the land whose cooking style made her famous. You can read a few posts here, here, and here.
I like the way one fellow summed up her two favorite foods as illustrated in the picture below:
Ah yes, if you think of gin as a broad term for alcoholic drinks including wine, then no doubt Julia and I would have got along just fine. 
Julia was a big believer in the taste and nutritional superiority of animal fats (i.e. saturated fats -- what French chef isn't), as you will see in her comments in the video below about McDonald's french fries, which were originally made with beef tallow but "nutritional pressure" forced them to adopt vegetable oils nearly 30 years ago.
Julia Child passed away in 2004 at the ripe old age of 91.
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