Daniel Kane found an exchange of letters between John Ashbery and Julia Child. Fantastic.
When John Ashbery writes to Julia Child in 1976 trying to figure out why he can't get Child's recipe for "ile flottante" right.... pic.twitter.com/ucvuBF49yd
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Related reading...and Julia Child writes back:
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All OCA John Ashbery posts (Pinboard)
[“He’s a poet who enjoys cooking” sounds to me like an introduction from The Dating Game.]
By coincidence, my only conversational scrap with John Ashberry was also about food. After a reading, in Louisville, in line for the snacks, he asked about Benedictine, a much beloved Kentucky cucumber-cream cheese sauce. He said, is that Benedictine? I said, I believe it's garlic dip.
ReplyDeleteI never knew he was dedicated to cooking. But there it is, in a description of his kitchen: “a large collection of cookbooks and cooking equipment.”
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