Food Police Not Needed or Wanted

We occasionally treat ourselves to dinner out and a movie. The rock paper scissors game usually decides whether it’s an action movie or a chick flick. This past weekend paper beat rock and we headed to the theatre to see “Julie & Julia” a fun and entertaining story about Julia Child's culinary life in France and Julie Powell's year of cooking and blogging her way through Child's cookbook. I used to watch Child’s cooking show in my teens and blame my love of food on her and my Grandmother! Like my Grandmother and my husband’s grandparents, Julia Child lived to a ripe old age and she never skimped on ingredients or taste. They all enjoyed butter, cream, sugar, and dare I say it, meat! Their generation somehow managed to survive quite well with a diet that included all the major food groups without turning into great gelatinous blobs. Food police weren’t needed on every corner then and they aren’t needed now, any more than “fat” or “sin” taxes. What we do need now is a little more of what helped them stay healthy while still allowing them to enjoy all of life’s culinary pleasures, exercise and hard work.