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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are many valid reasons for the great American love affair with the kitchen. Starting with the G.I.s of World War II and continuing with the tourists lured to faraway places by low-priced jet packages, solid steak-and-tater burghers have returned home by the millions with tingling memories of the rites and delights of other nations' tables. Julia Child's 1961 book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her superbly low-key, artfully maladroit TV demonstrations were immensely influential in persuading her fellow citizens that serious cuisine is not some kind of Gallic voodoo but rather...
...Cooking is a sensual experience, and when men and women dice and slice and saute in tandem, other juices than those of the good beef flow. Says Julia Child: "The family that cooks together, stays together." The man in the kitchen soon learns to appreciate the degree of love and labor that his wife puts into the feeding of a family?and where the household budget goes. New Jersey Cookmates Joyce and Louis Harvey say they could never get divorced: "Who would get the Cuisinart, and who the KitchenAid mixer...
Actor James Coco, an accomplished home chef, maintains: 'The act of cooking is like the act of making love. You have to pamper the food; you must have tender feelings for it; you must have the right touch to turn it into a beautiful thing." The 250-Ib. sybarite, who learned how to make ravioli from Sophia Loren while shooting Man of La Mancha in Rome five years ago, adds ?with a touch of sage: "For me, cooking and eating ease all pain. When I am unhappy, I cook and eat. When I am happy, I cook...
Alain Chapel, 40, owner of the three-star restaurant, Alain Chapel, in Mionnay: "You have to love either what you are going to eat or the person you are cooking for. Then you have to give yourself up to cooking. Cuisine is an act of love...
...also happy? Yes and no. He finds that adulation is a kind of prison, his young fans' love not far removed from hostility. When he was shooting Saturday Night in Brooklyn, the teen-agers would try to coax him out of his trailer as they might a caged dog-by rocking it back and forth...