I'm almost done reading Julia Child's My Life in France. I had no idea she was such a hip lady. She was sort of a hippie before the word hippie was invented. She professed a love for "eggheads" (intellectual nerds). She didn't like traveling or living first class because it wasn't authentic. She didn't like the way that the culinary program was run at Le Cordon Bleu so she complained and then created her own curriculum. She had to take the final exam twice but she did graduate on her own terms.
Right now I'm learning how her book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, came to be. Fascinating stuff.
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