On Aug 17, 3:10*am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> "Kajikit" > wrote in message
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> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:10:05 -0600, Christine Dabney
> > > wrote:
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> >>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.
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> >>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
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> > 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...
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> 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

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John Kuthe...