Day 21

Judith Jones, Senior editor and vice president of Knopf Here is the photo I promised you. Judith looks great for 85+ years and was one of the best speakers that I have heard in a long while. Her command of the English language was enviable, each word carefully chosen to precisely express each thought. She never rambled or lost her train of thought.

I'll let you in on another secret she shared about the movie, Julie and Julia.
Do you remember when Judith was supposed to be going to Julie's apt for dinner and had to cancel due to bad weather? Well, that was partly true, but the real reason that she cancelled was that Julia Child had read the blog and had found several four letter words in it. She reported this to Judith saying that Julie can't be taken seriously. In essence, don't waste your time. So Judith cancelled politely using the weather as an excuse.

Well, one more recipe down the hatch. Tonight's dish, Linguine with Artichokes and Lemon (pg112) was very tastey. We had neighbors over for dinner and they asked for seconds even though they are both carnivors. Now that is the mark of a good recipe.

I generally leave out the crushed red pepper that many of Bill's recipes call for because my mother can't handle the hot stuff. So I just put the bottle on the table and everyone can suit themselves. Some like it hot and others do not!

We have company coming this weekend so I think I will plan a big feast. We always seem to have company and I love it. Even when we first moved to our peninsula in 1973 and lived in a tent we had company. Granted there wasn't much room to entertain, but people stopped by never the less. I remember one of our new neighbors dropping by for a visit and to give us "city folk" a rifle because of the reported bears in the area. I don't think I slept all that night. I am not sure whether I was more worried about the bears or about Sam using a rifle for the first time in his life. Well, fortunately, we never did have to use that rifle, but you can imagine I was happy to move out of that tent and into our new house. As far as cooking goes, I moved up from a two burner Coleman stove to a four burner Kerosene stove......wow, we've come a long way baby.