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From: mlupton@delphi.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Julia Child rides again!
Date: Wed, 10 May 95 11:10:11 -0500

May 10, 1995

Chicago Tribune, Section 2 (Tempo), pg 7 (out of state edition)

'Queen of cuisine'
'Julia Child continues her reign over the hearts of her fans' by Alan Solomon

"I never did ask her if this actually did happen on her show, but when she was cooking a duck, supposedly she dropped it and picked it right up and just kind of patted its butt off and said, 'It's fine.'" --Christopher Gross, chef at Christopher's Phoenix

It is in a little hallway outside the studio of radio station WBEZ, while waiting to make a midmorning guest spot, that Julia Child is asked if that did happen on her show-if she actually dropped the duck, etc.

"I never did," she says in the ever-startled voice that is uniquely her own. "People say, 'But I saw you do that.' All I did once was, I was flipping a potato pancake and it flipped onto the stove and I picked it up and put it back in the pan and I said, 'You're alone in the kitchen'

..."It's interesting when people say, 'I saw you do it.' Or that 'I saw you pick up the bottle of wine and take a swig of it'-which I would never do. On television."

...Julia Child, master teacher, on being told a Tribune staffer swore she saw that fowl drop: "Isn't that interesting? One thing that did happen, it was a turkey or something and it was wrapped on a counter in back of me, and it began sliding into the sink ..."

And with that, she burst into the most wonderful laugh.

End of quote.

I thought it was a leg of lamb that fell to the floor.