Back in the halcyon days of August, the esteemed Ellsworth American was kind enough to send reporter Kate Cough to my reading at the Northeast Harbor, Maine, Library. Her report begins like this …
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\nNORTHEAST\u00a0HARBOR\u00a0\u2014When Julia Child got her first microwave oven \u201cit was this magical space-age thing from NASA,\u201d says her grandnephew Alex Prud\u2019homme. \u201cShe was told you could cook everything in it.\u201d
\nJulia decided to test the machine at her house in Cambridge, Mass. She was throwing a dinner party. \u201cAnd she put the frozen chicken, the vegetables and the chocolate cake into this magical machine,\u201d says Prud\u2019homme. \u201cShe pushed the button and it kind of rumbled and began to smoke. Then they noticed some chocolate leaking out and she opened the door and this big cloud of smoke came out and there was a burnt and still frozen chicken in there, some really horrible looking vegetables and melted chocolate cake.\u201d
\nOn Aug. 15, Prud\u2019homme regaled a rapt audience with stories of his time cooking and eating with his great aunt, America\u2019s \u201cfirst lady of French food,\u201d at the Northeast Harbor Library. Child also was known in Maine. She and her husband, Paul, spent time summers at a rustic retreat in the Tremont village of Bernard.
\n\u201cYou\u2019ve inspired me to cook!\u201d gushed one woman as Prud\u2019homme signed copies of the two books, \u201cThe French Chef in America: Julia Child\u2019s Second Act\u201d and \u201cFrance is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child,\u201d that were the subject of the evening\u2019s discussion.
\nFor the rest of the story, please see:\u00a0https:\/\/www.ellsworthamerican.com\/living\/living-food\/chef-julia-childs-biographer-recalls-his-great-aunt-and-uncle\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back in the halcyon days of August, the esteemed Ellsworth American was kind enough to send reporter Kate Cough to my reading at the Northeast Harbor, Maine, Library. Her report begins like this … NORTHEAST\u00a0HARBOR\u00a0\u2014When Julia Child got her first microwave oven \u201cit was this magical space-age thing from NASA,\u201d says her grandnephew Alex…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,17,13,14,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n