C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for June 16, 2010

Bless you Julia Child….

So far so good.

Take a deep breath, Mona! Remain calm and keep that big smile!

(But why am I giving Mona such advice when Raoul doesn’t deserve her?)

Hey, you know what they say about gettin’ a man. “The path to a man’s heart is through his stomach”.

Wow, nice save!

Girls! Just when I think I’m going to get away with my skin, out pops cookies. Dang you Julia Child. I even sat through the movie hoping for refreshments.

From cookie to nookie.

Looking back at yesterday’s, it’s interesting what Jennifer did with Mona’s pupils. First panel: She’s all excited and her pupils are dilated. Second panel: she’s screwed up and her pupils shrink to dots. Same kind of thing is going on today. Could anyone possibly look any cuter than Mona these past couple of days? Especially third panel yesterday. I don’t see any of today’s Mona here. Curse you, Raoul!!

I want cookies!

Sacrée Vache! A French girl in France invoking Julia Child? She gave away vital French cooking secrets to boorish Americans! Have you no national pride, girl?

Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé!

Yup… French Internet in the 1990’s was called Minitel:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3142862.stm

And in existence since 1983!

Would the French in France know or care who Julia Child was? Drat it, I stand corrected: it’s very likely they’d know:-

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/toplists/topcelebritychefs/topcelebritychefs.html

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child

A Knight of the Legion of Honour for her services to French cookery…

Even so, I’d suspect Mona might be more au fait with a native celebrity chef, or failing that, a Swiss or a Belgian.

Alain Ducasse, Albert Roux, perhaps…

Sauvez le Foie!

^ What exactly are you expecting here, ElDo? “First Tango in Paris”?