"Kajikit" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:10:05 -0600, Christine Dabney
> > wrote:
>
>>And Julia's books were all sold out... A week or two ago, when I was
>>in there, there were a few Julia books, and sets of Mastering. Now,
>>nada. Zilch.
>>
>>But I was really floored by the number of folks looking at
>>cookbooks..and it looked like they were buying!!
>>
>>Wonder what this means for the future of cooking in this country?
>>
>>Christine
>
> It means that people (like me and anyone else under 40) who are too
> young to have had much exposure to Julia Child and her cookbooks have
> had their interest peaked by the movie and now they want to find out a
> bit more about her... hopefully they'll actually make some of her
> recipes. I'm curious now too. I've heard about her and I know she was
> famous but I've never seen her cooking show in my life - they didn't
> show it in Australia, at least not that I was aware of. We grew up
> watching cooking shows on tv because we all enjoyed them, but we never
> saw hers...



If you get local public television you may well start to see some of her
original shows again. I caught a few hours of them not long ago. (Of
course it was during fundraising week so they had to come in every 10
minutes to ask for money.) Did you know Julia donated her kitchen to the
Smithsonian Institution? It's on permanent exhibit and that's saying a lot.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/kitchen/stories01_01.htm

Jill