On Sun 27 Jul 2008 12:48:31p, Andy told us...

> Wayne Boatwright said...
>
>> On Sun 27 Jul 2008 12:35:01p, Andy told us...
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright said...
>>>
>>>> On Sun 27 Jul 2008 08:57:03a, Billy told us...
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:38:29 -0500, George Shirley
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>He's what some call a "celebrity" chef, in Fall River he was just
>>>>>>another cook.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's kind of like saying Julia Child was just a file clerk at OSS
>>>>> Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section .
>>>>
>>>> Hardly. Emeril is more entertainer than chef/cook, at least on TV.
He
>>>> became creative in the microcosm of established New Orleans cuisine,
>>>> had great promoters, and a drive to propel him to stellar
proportions.
>>>> Julia Child made an intense hands-on study of French cuisine (mainly
>>>> because she couldn't really cook and wanted to learn to cook to please
>>>> her husband), "translated" the art of French cooking for the American
>>>> public, and turned the course of American cooks' approach to food and
>>>> cooking from "Mamie Eisenhower bland" to a far more educated palate
and
>>>> the inspiration to do so. PBS almost reluctantly put her on the air
>>>> and was very unsure of what success the program might have.
>>>
>>>
>>> Absolutely disagree! Julia was a good cook before the show aired.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>
>> Andy, read it again. That's not what I said. Julia had become a very
>> accomplished cook and baker in France before returning to the US, and
had
>> co-authored Mastering the Art of Frech Cooking before doing the TV show.
>> She was also extremely shy in many areas. PBS was at first a bit
>> reticent because they didn't know if the show would have appeal.
>
>
> Wayne,
>
> Mom put on the TV and we didn't have remote control. We sat there and
> absorbed it.
>
> We didn't know her history for a decade or so.
>
> Andy
>

And as a well known radio pesonality says, "...and now you know the end of
the story." :-)

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Wayne Boatwright
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