Joy of Cooking

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I just got back from a vacation in Washington D.C. with the GF. While there we tried to do as much as we could and I found something yall (and Ethan) might like. One day we went to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and found this one of very many cool things they had on display.

Julia Child's donated her kitchen to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian put her kitchen back together just as she had it and I found 2 very well used copies of the "Joy of Cooking" front and center on her bookshelf! I'd say she got her money's worth out of them!

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Julia was a great cook in her own right, of course, but it looks like she relied on Ethan's Mother and Grandmother when she was stuck.:D
 
I have two copies of that book also ,one for the kitchen one for upstairs. I have very few cookbooks as I am one who has the instinct and doesn't need recipies. I'm glad they put her kitchen together .Julia certainly made enormous changes for American cooking .
 
I do have the 1975 edition that I bought way back when, and it was a mainstay for years, along with James Beard's books and Good Housekeeping. I probably have 14 or 15 cookbooks, but I think "joy" is probably the most used of them all.

Aside from the fact that I like good food, it impressed the ladies, too (offering a good meal actually worked a lot better than "hey, baby, want to see my etchings?"). joy of cooking probably taught me more about cooking than any other thing.

I still use "joy" from time to time, but I have to admit that I use the internet just as much nowadays.

Oddly, I wasn't too surprised to see "joy" on Julia's shelf, since it's a go-to reference, even for the best of cooks.
 
i want a copy of the edition with game and whale recipes :)

as well, i'd like them to put back the instructions on how to prepare small game. using a boot :) i hear that is hotly contested material :)


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Bladite said:
i want a copy of the edition with game and whale recipes :)

as well, i'd like them to put back the instructions on how to prepare small game. using a boot :) i hear that is hotly contested material :)


Bladite
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That must be an edition well before mine. I'd like to see it, though.:D
 
Hey mc85.....

Julia was, indeed, one of the best....I regret not knowing her better than I did but the time I did spend with her was a true delight....Next knife show feed me alcohol and get me to tell you the story about the Radcliffe seminar and I guarantee you will be rolling on the ground trying to hold your guts in.....It is damned hard to get even a chuckle out of a "high Level" academic seminar But!!!!!!!!!!!!.....

Thanks for the post and the pictures, brought me a smile or two for sure, she was one grand lady....

The '63 has the whale info and also "the boot"......

All Best...
ethan

ps those are both 1975 editions, I think her first Joy was a '46 or perhaps a "53....
 
Ethan Becker said:
Hey mc85.....

Julia was, indeed, one of the best....I regret not knowing her better than I did but the time I did spend with her was a true delight....Next knife show feed me alcohol and get me to tell you the story about the Radcliffe seminar and I guarantee you will be rolling on the ground trying to hold your guts in.....It is damned hard to get even a chuckle out of a "high Level" academic seminar But!!!!!!!!!!!!.....

Thanks for the post and the pictures, brought me a smile or two for sure, she was one grand lady....

The '63 has the whale info and also "the boot"......

All Best...
ethan

ps those are both 1975 editions, I think her first Joy was a '46 or perhaps a "53....
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and of course, nobody took that guarantee, did they? :)

the "boot" is the funniest and best thing i've ever seen in a cookbook!


Bladite
 
Bladite said:
and of course, nobody took that guarantee, did they? :)

the "boot" is the funniest and best thing i've ever seen in a cookbook!


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I've heard references, but I've never actually seen the bits about the whale or the boot. Is it possible to post them, or find them online?
 
Well, I'll be go to heck, I didn't know Ethan did the JOC book. I'm going to have to look at my wife's and see which edition she has.

Thanks,

Al
 
Mine are 1973 and contain the whale recipies though rather brief.
"Last - but vast " !! I've had beluga back in those days but I didn't cook it .Whales are protected here now but are available in places like Japan, Norway ,Faroe Islands.

BTW the only knife thing I remember off hand on her shows was the pirate thing where she had a culass !! She had a fine sense of humour !
 
mete said:
Mine are 1973 and contain the whale recipies though rather brief.
"Last - but vast " !! I've had beluga back in those days but I didn't cook it .Whales are protected here now but are available in places like Japan, Norway ,Faroe Islands.

BTW the only knife thing I remember off hand on her shows was the pirate thing where she had a culass !! She had a fine sense of humour !
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it's kinda funny how Japan esp has whale to eat in such decent amounts when they agreed to stop hunting it... i guess all those research whales "die" after research ;)

i know that some cultures are still "allowed" to eat some as part of their indigenous rights... Innuit still, i think?


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