Delicious Irony (pun intended)

[Jenise]

Not only had the people who purchased Julia and Paul Child's former Boston home last February--the very one the kitchen now enshrined in the Smithsonian was removed from in 2001--never heard of Julia Child, they're vegans!

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/31/new_occupants_get_cooking_in_julia_childs_former_house/?page=1

That just seems like a crime to me!

That just seems like a crime to me!

It is, of course.

I thought even stranger that the new owners are not the vegans, Jenise...they didn't want to offend friends who ARE vegans.

As the teenagers are saying via text these days: WTF????

Quote:

The plan was simple: Make a couple of Child’s recipes and see how it feels. Landsverk added one caveat: Everything had to be vegan because she did not want to offend her animal-rights friends. So, no butter.

Me again. No, really. WTF. I cannot get my head around this. Not eating something NOT because your guests don't eat it. Because some of your friends, not friends who are dining at your table, just friends who might be eating their own tofu somewhere right now, are vegans themselves.

I am speechless, although I feel some sort of essay coming on.

It's the end of something, I just no longer know what that something is.

b

I thought even stranger that the new owners are not the vegans, Jenise...they didn't want to offend friends who ARE vegans.

As the teenagers are saying via text these days: WTF????

Quote:

The plan was simple: Make a couple of Child’s recipes and see how it feels. Landsverk added one caveat: Everything had to be vegan because she did not want to offend her animal-rights friends. So, no butter.

Me again. No, really. WTF. I cannot get my head around this. Not eating something NOT because your guests don't eat it. Because some of your friends, not friends who are dining at your table, just friends who might be eating their own tofu somewhere right now, are vegans themselves.

I am speechless, although I feel some sort of essay coming on.

It's the end of something, I just no longer know what that something is.

b

Hey, Babe, I'm with you.

Clearly, they are not food people. (It wasn't a requirement for the purchase of the house.)

I thought even stranger that the new owners are not the vegans, Jenise...they didn't want to offend friends who ARE vegans.

As the teenagers are saying via text these days: WTF????

Quote:

The plan was simple: Make a couple of Child’s recipes and see how it feels. Landsverk added one caveat: Everything had to be vegan because she did not want to offend her animal-rights friends. So, no butter.

Me again. No, really. WTF. I cannot get my head around this. Not eating something NOT because your guests don't eat it. Because some of your friends, not friends who are dining at your table, just friends who might be eating their own tofu somewhere right now, are vegans themselves.

I am speechless, although I feel some sort of essay coming on.

It's the end of something, I just no longer know what that something is.

b

Hmm. I live in California, so there are a lot of people who'd be offended by my eating meat. But my wife's family is from a place where the idea of being vegan would offend them.

If I worried about such things the way these people appear to, I'd never be able to eat again!

The article mentioned that one of the new owners' daughters, a 20 year old college student, didn't know who Julia Child was. It didn't say that the buyers themselves were ignorant of who she was. Plus it seems the daughter has been getting into it, and has now read both “Julie & Julia’’ and “My Life in France.’’

The family moved because Harvard finally managed (after years of trying) to lure the husband away from UVA where he was a star professor. Food certainly wasn't a consideration. Regardless: to each their own.

[Jenise]

I thought even stranger that the new owners are not the vegans, Jenise...they didn't want to offend friends who ARE vegans.

As the teenagers are saying via text these days: WTF????

Wow, I misread it. Probably because I couldn't believe the truth--like you, I'm dumbfounded by the very idea.