On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:30:05 -0400, brooklyn1 wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:10:03 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
> > wrote:
>
>>On Aug 21, 5:49*am, brooklyn1 > wrote:
>>
>>> The talent still needs to be present initially... what you described
>>> is grooming and practice... you say it yourself, "if you are good"...
>>> athletes are born, not made. * You can't just wake up one morning and
>>> decide you're going to be a chef... anyone can attend a culinary
>>> school, they'll be very happy to take their money, but I'll bet 99% of
>>> those who graduate will never earn a living in the food industry...
>>> anyone with the dollars can buy a culinary degree. *Most notable
>>> "chef's" get their degree after they become notable, looks good on
>>> their bio... *Julia Child is a good case in point... she was never
>>> much of a cook, she was a media celebrity because she was first.
>>> Professional cooking is nothing like the glamorized rendition seen on
>>> TV... the real deal is hard dirty work, with long hours, zero job
>>> security, and doesn't pay very much.
>>
>>But first she earned a certificate from the Cordon Bleu.
>
> Child was born in 1912 and didn't become interested in food/cooking,
> French cusine in particular, until about 1950, due to her husband
> locating to France. Julia Child was never much of a cook, she became
> a TV celebrity by having the first cooking show (mostly her husband's
> influence) and capitalized on that. I remember watching her first
> cooking shows, she didn't have a clue, she was more like the Clarabel
> of cooking... she had a good personality that appealed to the then
> typical stereotypical housewives and the time was ripe for a cooking
> show, but mostly she was a good business woman who knew how to market
> herself. The same is true of many of the TV food personalities, but
> Julia is most notable because she was first, she was smart, and had a
> very appropriate TV personality for the food venue at that time, not
> because she was a great cook. There were interviews where she
> admitted to not being a good cook.

navy cooks of course make her look sick.

blake