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...Prunes & Poisson. Julia Child learned her own lesson relatively late in life. Born in California, she went to Smith and did not know a choucroute garnie from a pate en croute until she began living in Paris in 1948, where her husband was attached to the U.S. Embassy. Having no children and little to do, Mrs. Child began to study the cuisine of France under a chef who once worked with Auguste Escoffier. Soon she had established her own cooking school-Ecole des Trois Gourmandes-with two French women as partners, who still run it. After twelve years of preparation...
...giving a weekly drill in sketching. She delivers her points with a kind of muddleheaded nonchalance that invites others to feel that if she can do it, anybody can. As she putters over items like roast goose with a stuffing of pate-filled prunes or a simple mousseline de poisson a la marechale, she mutters archaically about the "icebox," refers to the ventral area of the bird as its "chest," advises using "a few good whaps of pepper." She even says "eek" on occasion, when things go wrong; but nothing really troubles her. If a filling drools out onto...
Your readers may be interested to learn that the original model for the General de Gaulle figure was the 17th century actor, and friend of the artist, Philippe Poisson. Also, there was a fourth figure in the original, seated at lower left, but X rays show that Watteau apparently changed his mind and painted...
...Queue de Poisson. Even more ominous is the death toll, which has jumped from 7,166 in 1953 to 10,103 in 1962, with 229,485 injured. If U.S. motorists killed at a similar rate, U.S. traffic deaths would amount to 120,000 a year instead of the actual 42,600 annually. The road slaughter is not completely the fault of inadequate highways, but often results from French élan. It is common in France to speed up as soon as you discover that the car behind you is trying to pass. The unofficial code of the chevalier...
...there-after dutifully getting the King's permission to do so-in 1764. At first her intellectual mentor, Voltaire, had to correct her in a whisper at state dinners because her middle-class turn of phrase was so foreign to the phony formulas of the court. Her surname (Poisson, which means fish) was an endless source of cruel merriment...