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.