Julia Childs Cooked Up More Than Just a Few Good Meals… Can you imagine 007 with a flair for Frau Gras?
Posted by celeborama on August 14, 2008
Who’d have thunk it. Julia Childs, whisker-upper of puffulous souffles, Cutter-Upper of Creamy Casseroles, etc. – was a spy.
After the moratorium lifted on keeping sealed WWII government files on U.S. espionage activities abroad… well, sealed, Julia Childs name surfaces as one of the sneaks hired to spy on foreign powers and gather information that would be helpful to the American cause.
While she was only one of many spies who would one day become celebrities, since I’ve been a huge fan of Julia since I first made my first attempts at cooking in a kitchen full of incompetents, I found her story especially fascinating… you can read it HERE.
