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I will have you respect the RIP thread 
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I like this theory insteadâŚ
https://twitter.com/tinytempest/status/1580184087717113861
One of my favorite headcanons is that Murder, She Wrote is actually a very popular holo-novel in the world of [#StarTrek![(https://twitter.com/hashtag/StarTrek?src=hashtag_click) and it was particularly beloved of the Voyager crew (after all, it was the only entertainment they had).
My evidence? Letâs go! #MurderSheHoloWrote
Clickie to see thread⌠esp to see Janeway
Hah. Thatâs pretty good.
Character actor Robbie Coltrane dies at 72, known to a generation of fans as Hagrid in the Harry Potter series.
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That is so sad: only my age. My kids and grandkids will also be mourning this as Hagrid was so likeable.
RIP Robbie.
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I knew him from Blackadderâs Christmas Carol first, and Krull.
RIP.
âThe Curse of The Astronautâ continues.
Good article.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, dead again (after incorrect earlier reports).
Yeah, itâs usually a matter of (a short) time if the actual person doesnât release a statement themselves that they are alive.
RIP Julie Powell, who wrote a popular blog about cooking every recipe in Julia Childâs âMastering the Art of French Cooking, volume 1â. She wrote a book about it, and the book was adapted into the movie âJulie and Juliaâ.
She also wrote a less popular book that touched on her marital problems and her apprenticeship at a butcher shop.
She died at 49 of a heart attack. She had Covid a couple months before, and was vaccinated, leading to speculations both that she died of long covid and that she died of vaccination.
So sad! I got interested in Julia Child bc of her (although I didnât love Julie and Julia, just Julia herself).
I enjoyed the movie, but apparently her actual blog was extremely vulgar and Julia Child did NOT approve.
I donât think that was Julia Childâs issue. The quotes Iâve seen suggest that Child was offended that she treated âcooking stuff from the cookbookâ as challenging. Julia Child spent a huge amount of time trying to make her recipes clear and easy to follow.
I think there may have been some misunderstanding, as a lot of Julieâs struggles had to do with stuff like sourcing ingredients. But she hurt Juliaâs pride.
Also, i learned that one of the on-line cooking sites i like, Spruce Eats, was inspired by Julieâs blog.
For whom? I have made her beef burgâŚburg⌠whatever and it was as hard to make as it is to spell. It was yummy though.
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I mean⌠âeasier than trying to follow a French cookbook, with metric measurements, written in the French languageâ? Sure, certainly.
âMaking French cuisine more accessible to Americansâ? Or put another way: âencouraging American housewives to try their hand at French cookingâ? Again, certainly.
Easy? No.
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She helped redefine cookbooks to make complex cooking accessible. French cookbooks of her age werenât just in French, they were vague. You had to already know a lot to use them at all. Like the technical challenges on the great British baking show that say, âmake the custard sauceâ or âcook until doneâ.
Anyway, itâs obviously harder than a lot of whatâs available now. And thatâs one of the reasons Julieâs blog was popular.
I would imagine a cookbook written in 1961 would be more difficult to cook from than one written today. But it was quite ground breaking for its time. And im sure there were a lot of skills the average âhousewifeâ had then that the average person wanting to follow Juliaâs recipes now doesnât possess.
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