Julia Child

Minette’s Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat

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I love Julia Child for many reasons—her spunk and dogged determination, her love for life and cooking, her love for France, and her cookbooks.  But another reason I love Julia Child is because she was a cat lover, a fact which award-winning children’s book author Susanna Reich captures in her book, Minette’s Feast: The Delicious […]

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A Conversation with Bob Spitz, author of Dearie (+ A Giveaway!)

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“Now, dearie, I will require a hot plate for my appearance on Professor Duhamel’s program.” Russ Morash, who had answered the telephone in a makeshift office he shared with the volunteers at WGBH-TV, was momentarily startled, not so much by the odd request as by the odder voice. It had a quality he’d never heard […]

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Jarlsberg Cheese Souffle

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” Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.” — Julia Child Oh what a wise woman Julia Child was!  If […]

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