Even Julia Child couldn't avoid eating food she didn't like, occasionally
Chef told CBC Radio in 1991 that for her, badly cooked food and bad salad dressings were verboten
There were few things that Julia Child wouldn't eat, but there were a couple of things she just couldn't stomach.
"I don't eat badly cooked food," the legendary chef, TV host and foodie extraordinaire once told Vicki Gabereau during a 1991 interview on CBC Radio's Gabereau.
"I don't eat processed food, I'm frightened [of it]," she said, admitting a moment later that "sometimes you have to, but I mean, if I have my druthers, I like good, fresh food."
'That hideous oil'
The famed cookbook author also said she found some restaurant salad dressings "with rotten oil" very distasteful.
Unfortunately, she'd just been served such a dressing on back-to-back days, when she stayed at a Vancouver hotel.
"They had some of this awful, bottled French dressing with that hideous oil, I don't know where it comes from," said Child.
Child had been in British Columbia to attend a conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), an event Gaberau described as "a get-together, sort of, for the world's best foodies."
A firm opinion on french fries
The conversation with The French Chef star on CBC Radio touched on a lot of interesting topics, including Child's apparent unfamiliarity with Kraft Dinner, her wartime service with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services and her personal view that McDonald's french fries weren't as good as they used to be.
Gabereau also asked Child, who was promoting her latest cookbook at age 78, about her future plans.
"I'm never going to do another [cookbook]. This took me about eight years to do," Child said, who wouldn't actually stick to that intention, as she continued to publish further works in the years to come.
"I like to be with people. I''d much rather do television, or talk to you. It just takes an awfully long time to write a book."
The renowned chef died on Aug. 13, 2004, just two days short of her 92nd birthday.
