NYT has a wonderful tribute to Julia Child...

[CarolynEC]

Oh, she will be missed! :cry:

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Mrs. Child, whose ``Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' has been through numerous editions, was a pop icon virtually from her debut on WGBH in Boston in 1963. She got her start in television at 50, an age youth-crazed producers today would consider well past her sell-by date, and made the cover of Time magazine five years later. Over the decades she was a favorite of comedians, most famously Dan Aykroyd on ``Saturday Night Live,'' who played her boozily bleeding to death while shrieking, ``Save the liver.''

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To the end, Mrs. Child maintained her image as the ultimate bon vivant, a California girl with easy French tastes. Whenever she was asked what her guilty pleasures were, she responded: ``I don't have any guilt.''

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/dining/13CND-CHILD.html

[CarolynEC]

1. Also, snopes has a page on Julia...

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/julia.htm

[RodneyCK2]

2. I will miss her. I was very saddened to wake up to this news.

A woman who to great pleasure in both cooking and eating. May she be in a better place now. :cry: