French culinary tradition was a frontier, not a religion.” If a legendary recipe could be improved upon, then let the gods beware.

I didn’t start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. – Julia Child

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws;...

In Paris in the 1950s, I had the supreme good fortune to study with a remarkably able group of chefs. From them I learned why good French good is an art, and why it makes...

…The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

I discovered that when one follows the artist’s eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.