"Victor Sack" > wrote in message
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> A 'French Chef' Whose Appeal Doesn't Translate
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> By MAÏA de la BAUME
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> International Herald Tribune
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> PARIS - Julia Child may have been America's best-known "French chef,"
> but here in Paris few know her fabled cookbooks, let alone her name.
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A funny thing Victor. I thought long about that article after reading it.
How many times do we lionize our American cultural icons as "world famous or
world renown? This woman was a force to be reckoned with in American
cooking. I just think how better would our meals have been when I was
growing up if my mother had taken the time to follow her ideas? She truly
did more to revolutionize cooking in this country.

But worldwide. Not likely. Before this article came out, the SBF was reading
me an article in the Swedish rag which essentially said: Julie who!

Her reputation to me was famously earned, and displayed on television the
way no other country had done at the time. But it did remind me that just in
England alone, the name Delia Smith is the queen of the kitchen, unlike
anyone else.