My sister’s comment about our Mother being our Julia Child is so true. Mom was a huge fan of Julia Child. We would watch her early shows together and many times mom would make the food Julia was preparing on the show. What was so interesting about that was she would make the recipe and adjusted it to suite her taste. Unbelievable how it would turn out so perfectly perfect.
After Mom passed away I was given all of her cook books and in one of the cook books was a letter she received from Julia (most likely someone on her staff sent it). Mom wrote to Julia for one of the recipes she prepared on her PBS show. She got the recipe along with a reprimand. That reprimand was concerning her lack of sending a self-addressed envelope in which the recipe should have been sent. Needless to say, I still have that letter along with the recipe.