I'm guessing that a Julia Child comment might go unpunished in the Cooking Forum under the "& MOre" part of the banner.
I was recently surprised to read that Julia Child, yes THAT Julia Child AKA "The French Chef" of television fame had been an OSS employee in China (Secretary to a relatively high level officer.) OSS, for the historically challenged, was the precursor organization of the CIA involved in secret intel ops behind the lines in nearly all theaters.
For that matter the actor Steriling Hayden and author Earnest Hemmingway were both OSS officers who had led bands of partisan gorilla fighters behind enemy lines in WW II but didn't go on to fame as chefs.
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