content: After seeing the movie, I knew what I was in for when I read the book. Julia Child is a survivor, a truly original pioneer of the old school, disciplined and humble. She is everything that hipster bloggers, like the author, is not - whiny, narcissistic, entitled, yet full of illusions of her own grandeur and hero-worshipping of everything "vintage" and iconic - in this case it's Julia Child. I wasn't surprised Child responded the way she did - who would want to be used as a marketing gimmick and turned into a cultural totem object by a wimpy, girl-woman who has the life experience of an ameoba? Julia Child must have sensed this and stayed away.