August 14, 2008
Mastering The Art of International Espionage: Julia Child's US Spy Aspirations
We love Julia Child. We love that she asks us to boil bacon. We love her eight page instructions in Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One on how to make a simple egg omelette. We love her staunch pro-butter stance. We love her height. We tend to love Child's recipes over Pepin's in Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home. And we sobbed the day she died (and just felt a lump in our throat after finishing the first half of this sentence.)
So, we were elated to hear that she had once applied to be a spy. How cool is that? According to AP, "Child's background as a government agent come into the public spotlight Thursday with the National Archives' release of more than 35,000 top-secret personnel files of World War II-era spies." The CIA, it seems, has been holding onto this info for decades. Really, we thought out love for Child had hit a very high ceiling, but this just pushes it up into the stratosphere.
Oh, and the reason she gives for wanting to be a government spy? Impulsiveness.
Excuse us. We have something in our eye.
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Smithie! I bet there are a lot of Seven Sister spies out there . . .
She's not as hot as Valerie Plame but I bet Plame can't whip up a hollandaise to save her life.
Old news! This was in her biography. She even has a paragraph in the Famous Female Spies section in The Daring Book for Girls....
Oh... I've cut the dickens out of my finger!
LOVE her! She used to live around the corner from me in Cambridge, MA. She'd always wave when I was walking the dog by her house. And, to think she wanted to fight the Nazis. Amazing.
I didn't think that Julia Child could be any more BADASS but there it is. Julia Child: Spy. BAD... ASS!
How do you not just love Julia Child!