Mastering the Child Within
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Julia Child, the woman who inspired generations of couch potatoes to eat, and eat well.
The long hot days of summer have the power to evoke so many memories--Fort Lee boys playing stickball in empty lots or on side streets that carried little, if any, traffic; exploring the pockets of our neighborhoods with friends we thought would walk beside us every day of our life; and, for us post-boomers, retro television shows. For this editor, this is the time of year that brings to mind late-summer afternoons lazing on the burnt-orange tweed Sears sofa in an air-conditionless living room-- the tweed biting into my perspiring skin like sand fleas. There was one whirring fan whose sole task was not to deliver any measure of cool relief, but to circularly distribute hot pockets of air around the room. On those lazy days, while lounging …
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