Thursday, August 15

 
A Day in the Life, at 90

Here's a wonderful Los Angeles Times interview with Julia Child in which we learn more about the life she lives now - in an assisted-living complex; DON'T call it a retirement home!, where she uses a walker to get around after back surgery - and in which the kitchen is wholly inadequate, right down to the useless min-oven which, she laments, "it tells you what to cook, you don't tell it." Pair it with the William Rice story listed below, and you'll get a well-balanced picture of the real Julia.
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