In honor of Julia Child

here's a quote from cnn

At a public event, she was once asked what was her favorite meal. Instantly, she reeled off the menu of a seven-course feast.

Asked how anyone could eat all that, Child said, "You don't. But, you taste everything."

and here's a factoid from her life

Child was born in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912, to an upper-middle-class family that employed a cook. According to her biographer, she barely knew how to do more than boil water when she graduated from Smith College in 1934 with a degree in history.

Child, who was 6-foot-2, intended to be either a novelist or a basketball player.
Creating a 'masterpiece'

During World War II she served with the Office of Strategic Services (an agency that later became the CIA), first in Washington, then in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and China.

It was during that time that she met her husband, Paul Child. After World War II, he was assigned to the U.S. Information Service at the American Embassy in Paris.

It was in Paris that Julia Child started her culinary career, at the Cordon Bleu, one of France's premier cooking schools.

In collaboration with her two French colleagues, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, she wrote "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," which appeared in 1961. Child was 49 at the time the book was published.