Julia And The Urban Legend
A couple days ago I got a comment about Julia Child that seemed to allude to a famous food-dropping incident. New England Guy (I just read his profile and learned he's a fan of P. G. Wodehouse) said that Julia taught him anything on the floor longer than five seconds hasn't really been on the floor
Let's clear things up. The legend has Child dropping a chicken, or a duck, or whatever, onto the floor. Then she picks it up, puts it back in the pan, as says You're alone in the kitchen.
What actually happened, and I've seen the video, is she flipped a potato pancake and missed the pan. She picked it up (not from the floor), put it back in, and did indeed note that you're alone in the kitchen.
As for the Five Second Rule, I think that's been around longer than Julia Child.
posted by LAGuy @ 1:10 AM
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While at law school, I took a cooking class at Cornell's hotel school. The teacher bore a more-than-passing resemblance to Ms. Child, and had very similar attitudes toward food preparation. She was meticulous, but also a realist. One line of hers I remember was "if you drop a $50 roast on the ground, you pick it up, wash it off, and cook it for 3 more minutes at high heat."
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