I was always the “weird kid” in my family.
An outlier among a group of people who were a norm of normal eaters back in the 1970’s, I was in awe of a strange funny-sounding woman who cooked things I had never seen before on the Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW.
Julia Child opened a whole new world for me. In between watching Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, I took in the great lady’s lessons about classic French technique.