OK, these are my last rebutals on my beloved Friduchi.
Dearest Natalie,
Julia Childs was without a doubt an innovator of the American culinary experience.
She pioneered the concept of a televised cooking show,
and with it introduced America to French cuisine, demystifying it for the masses, and in effect changing the cultural pallete forever, challenging and broadening the aesthetics of the average housewife in Idaho.
She achieved this though her passion for the art she loved: food.
But she was a mess in that kitchen.
I saw one show when she tried to cook a whole chicken in some recipe and she grabbed that bird and did things to it that looked illegal, immoral, and just plain ole wrong. Dan Akroid did a great skit as her in the first season of SNL, where (s)he gets a cut and bleeds all over the place and just keeps cooking.
She was clumbsy in that kitchen, to say the least, and that was the charm. It made her whole endeavor relatable. People saw themselves in that kitchen, thinking if she can do it...
She made the difference, not some array of skill or pastiche. She put her heart into the show and its message.
But her apples usually fell off her plate.
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