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CBS News Sunday Morning Food Special ADHD Edition

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:30:43 +0000

CBS Sunday Morning aired their annual "Food Issue," and they managed to cram a lot into an hour and a half: Sliders, Judith Jones, Alton Brown, mac n cheese, pie for life, Mexican hot dogs, and more. All of the available videos are embedded below.

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Julia Child's Cookbooks, Bestsellers Again

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:00:24 +0000

Julia & Julia may have gotten trounced by G.I. Joe almost three to one at the box office, but one side effect of the film and its media frenzy is a massive renewed interest in cookbooks by Julia Child. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 (buy at Amazon) is currently Amazon's overall number one bestseller (her memoir My Life in France is #10 overall). Julia Child's books also occupy six of the top eight slots in the cooking category (the other two slots belong to Julie Powell's Julie and Julia).

Mastering the Art of French Cooking may be a 48 year-old cookbook (released in 1961), but according to Paul Bogaards, director of publicity at Alfred A. Knopf, sales are up "300% so far this year over all of last year." And Mastering was not published without difficulty: Judith Jones, Child's editor and confidante, in the introductory essay "The Story of 'Mastering' at Knopf" in the 40th Anniversary Edition, recalled, "Alfred Knopf, when I told him the title we had settled on, said if anyone would buy a book by that title, he would eat his hat."

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Julia Child Considered The Julie/Julia Project 'a Stunt'

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:00:03 +0000

Publisher's Weekly spoke to Judith Jones, Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf, and Julia Child's editor and confidante, who shared her recollection of Child's feelings on Julie Powell's blog:

Jones says Child did not approve of Powell’s cook-every-recipe-in-one-year project. The editor and author read Powell’s blog together (Julie and Julia was published a year after Child’s 2004 death). “Julia said, ‘I don’t think she’s a serious cook.’ ” Jones thinks there was a generational difference between Powell and Child. “Flinging around four-letter words when cooking isn’t attractive, to me or Julia. She didn’t want to endorse it. What came through on the blog was somebody who was doing it almost for the sake of a stunt. She would never really describe the end results, how delicious it was, and what she learned. Julia didn’t like what she called ‘the flimsies.’ She didn’t suffer fools, if you know what I mean.”

Also, we can't help but call out the hideous ~~modification of~~ wraparound on the cover of Mastering The Art of French Cooking (buy at Amazon) to promote the film Julie & Julia — is nothing sacred?

Update: Matt in the comments informs us that it's just "a wraparound band on the cover promoting the movie. Take it off and it's just 'Mastering The Art Of French Cooking'." That's not so bad then.