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Thanksgiving, the Julia Child Way – The New York Times

Julia Child Credit Paul Child, courtesy Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Julia Child Credit Paul Child, courtesy Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

At the height of Julia Child’s fame in the 1970s and ’80s, Thanksgiving guests often felt the need to tell her she should get her home number removed from the public directory. (This was an analog tool called a “telephone book.”)

Source: Thanksgiving, the Julia Child Way – The New York Times

Editorial note: Pretty sad but speaks to generational changes going on, when you have to explain in a “New York Times” article what a telephone book “was.” Aside, they do still make telephone books, but not as many…