Julia's Birthday
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2013
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate Julia Child's birthday this week, listening to some early Splendid Table interviews with the grand lady. Ted Allen joins us as our celebrity stumpmaster in another round of Stump the Cook, and David Leite returns with a fresh look at a European favorite, Nutella. Chinese chef and scholar Ken Hom gives us a culinary tour of China.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- August 11, 2012 (originally aired)
- August 3, 2013 (rebroadcast)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country. |
| 0:08.1 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:32.0 | It's the splendid table from APM, American Public Media. |
| 0:44.8 | Music table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lincerecester. |
| 0:47.1 | Once Paul Child, husband of the singular Julia, told me about how she reacted the first |
| 0:52.8 | time he took her to Paris in 1948. We got a hint in |
| 0:56.5 | the movie Julie and Julia, but Paul was more vivid with me. He was so proud and delighted by her. |
| 1:04.1 | He said that the first time she walked the streets with him, she kept touching buildings, |
| 1:08.7 | watching people and mumbling. |
| 1:11.5 | It's so French. |
| 1:13.9 | It's so French. |
| 1:16.4 | They had no idea where that moment was going to take them. |
| 1:20.6 | Well, stay with us for more, this hour on the Splendid Table. |
| 1:35.3 | This is the splendid table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:43.3 | I'm Lynne Rossetto, Casper. |
| 1:45.2 | Julia Child's birthday is this month. She was a woman raised to marry and take her place in Pasadena's society, |
| 2:02.6 | except she didn't. Instead, during World War II, she joined a secret intelligence group, |
| 2:08.4 | the OSS. That led to marrying Paul Child. He took her to Paris. There she fell in love with cooking. |
| 2:16.5 | And eventually, we fell in love with her. She put TV food shows on the map. She never dumbed down anything. She did serious cooking, but she made it a romp. And at a time when many prosed and only high-profile appearances, Julia was more than generous with her time. When we began this show in 1995, |
| 2:37.0 | I'd worked with Julia on and off for quite a while, but her schedule was jammed. So when we invited |
| 2:42.7 | her onto this new show with a modest audience, we thought she wouldn't be able to do it. |
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