I saw the movie Julie & Julia this week.  I highly recommend it, especially if you like to eat good food or prepare it.  Even though I wouldn’t eat most of the recipes that were prepared in the movie, I could totally relate to the story.  Lots of trials and errors, but great rewards in working with food.

I met Julia Child at the International Housewares Show a number of years ago.  I was making juice with the Juiceman juicer in the Salton booth standing on a platform above the crowd.  One afternoon, I looked up and straight into the eyes of Julia Child who was there for a glass of my Ginger Hopper–carrot, apple, ginger juice.  I can’t remember what I said, but I was totally amazed that this woman who was the pioneer of cooking on TV was standing there before me for one of my creations.

I admire Julia so much because she was absolutely fearless.  When it came to food, nothing scared her; nothing seemed to stop her.  She made real food with gustco and probably saved untold numbers of American families from the perils of TV dinners and packaged foods. The health of Americans could actually be worse than it is now, had it not been for Julia saving us from hoards of chemicals in those boxes.

I once had a lady tell me she drove around for a couple of months with a juicer in the trunk of her car because she was too afraid to even take it into her house. “Never fear working with real food,” I say.  There are so many rewards, especially with fresh juice. 

We can learn a lot from Julia.  I don’t know if she ever got a juicer and created her own fresh juice.  But if you watch the movie Julie & Julia, I’m sure you’ll be very inspired to just “go for it” and make fresh juice every day.  And it’s so easy.  If Julia Child could create hundreds of recipes, we can certainly juice a few vegetables and fruit every day.  The best part is that you’ll get big rewards!

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