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If once my Cuisinart gave me the power to grow and mature in the kitchen as a teenager, now it gives me the power to slow down time and keep doing the things I have loved, writes Naomi Schalit.

Joan Didion, who died last year at 87, famously never used a decorator. The only interior design advice she admitted to taking came from her daughter,

Julia Child's collaborator Simone Beck has lingered as an object of pity in public memory. But maybe Beck didn’t want stardom at all.

Julia Child "was used to being someone who stood out and I think she took that ball and ran with it," Dunn said

You had to -- your man, and you had to flatter your man. >> everyone we knew in france was interested in food. most discussions were about food, really. >> julia met simka at a party, and they found many, many things that they could share. >> simone beck. she was a very good cook. we met and we just immediately became bosom friends. i had some american friends who wanted to learn cooking, so they said, will you teach us? i thought, heavens, i'm not ready for that, but simka was. she also had her friend and colleague louisette. so we started our cooking school, in our kitchen which had room eno...