One of my fondest memories was sitting in the lobby of a resort hotel in Aspen, Colorado one afternoon. Julia Child had been signing books in the Food and Wine Festival Tent earlier, and now she was having a cocktail with a few people she knew. I was about 12 feet away sitting in another cluster of chairs.

What I remember most about briefly talking to her as she signed my cookbooks (I still have them) and about watching/eavesdropping as she had a drink, was her ready laughter and the expression of genuine interest on her face as she encountered others...

How cool to learn that she used that open-faced inquisitive nature to spy for the OSS against the Nazis!

What a tasty morsel to add to the memory of the rich feast that was Julia Child.