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La Magia Della Cucina Di Maria Rita Porfiri * Una lei Leone, un lui Capricorno: la ricetta dell’alchimia sentimentale tra Julia e Paul Child La magia della cucina di Maria Rita Porfiri * uel giorno il caldo era Governativo per l’ Intelligence davanti alle immense finestre, si davvero insopportabile degli Stati Uniti, era stata fermò a guardar fuori, le braccia Q e il rumore del destinata da qualche mese piantate sulle anche, nella sua ventilatore a pale, che riusciva a presso la sede di Ceylon, la postura abituale. La pioggia malapena a muovere l’aria, splendida isola equatoriale scendeva sottile imperlando le rompeva il silenzio della piccola chiamata anche la lacrima foglie delle piante di tè ma Julia, stanza dove l’impiegata Julia dell’India . ammise a se stessa con la McWilliams era seduta alla Julia si alzò dalla sua poltroncina consueta onestà, sapeva bene di scrivania, intenta a riempire di e, per sgranchirsi le gambe, non esser lì per ammirare il nomi e numeri decine di moduli, decise di camminare fino alla panorama esotico che si stagliava destinati ad essere archiviati tra i grande vetrata che si apriva sul oltre il vetro. Julia fissava la documenti contenenti corridoio del palazzo che finestra di uno degli uffici della informazioni riservatissime. Era ospitava il suo ufficio, costruito costruzione di fronte, dove il 1943, il suo Paese era in guerra all’interno di un’enorme lavorava il collega Paul Cushing e, come dipendente dell’Ente piantagione di tè. Arrivata Child, sperando che si voltasse e, 1 travelcarnet.i t GIUGNO travelcarnet.i t La magia della cucina La cucina di Julia Child sistemata in una sala dello Smithsonian National Museum of American History (foto Matthew G. Bisanz). Nella pagina precedente, Julia Child alla Miami Book Fair International nel 1989 in occasione dell'uscita del suo libro The Way to Cook (foto MDC archives). intercettando il suo sguardo, la invitasse a uscire con lui, come accadeva sempre più spesso, da quando aveva preso a corteggiarla assiduamente. Anche Julia, all’epoca una indipendente single trentenne, non era insensibile al fascino di Paul: distinto e raffinato, amante della cucina francese, Paul aveva vissuto tra il New Jersey, dov’era nato, Boston, Parigi, dove si era cimentato in campo artistico come pittore e fotografo, con qualche incursione anche nella poesia, e l’Italia, dove aveva insegnato inglese, francese e A sinistra, la copertina dell'autobiografia di Julia Child My life in France , Knopf Doubleday perfino judo, sport in cui Publishing Group 2007. A destra, Julia Child - a life , della statunitense Laura Shapiro, eccelleva, presso una scuola Penguin Group USA Incorporated 2009. 2 travelcarnet.i t GIUGNO travelcarnet.i t spirito’. Di li a poco, Julia avrebbe concretizzato la sua passione per la gastronomia francese iscrivendosi alla celebre scuola d’arte culinaria Le cordon Bleu e, in seguito, seguendo corsi privati tenuti dagli chef più famosi, scoprendo di possedere un vero e proprio talento naturale in cucina. A beneficiare della sua straordinaria abilità ai fornelli erano il marito e gli amici parigini, che, spesso, venivano invitati a cena dai Child, i quali amavano molto festeggiare anniversari e ricorrenze. San Valentino, in particolare, era la solennità per eccellenza, celebrata inviando ai conoscenti spiritose cartoline-ricordo che li ritraevano nelle situazioni di coppia più impensate, perfino immersi in una vasca da bagno traboccante di schiuma! Julia visse cinque anni a Parigi, durante i quali, grazie anche al prezioso sostegno di suo marito, diede inizio all’ambizioso progetto di redigere un libro di ricette francesi destinato alle “casalinghe americane senza A sinistra, il cofanetto contenente una collezione in dvd di diciotto episodi del programma servitù”. La stesura del libro televisivo di Julia Child, WGBH Boston Video. A destra, la versione dvd della raccolta di richiese molti anni di lavoro e ricette The Way to Cook , Alfred A. Knopf/Bkit edizione 2010. In alto, Meryl Streep e Stanley Tucci nei panni di Julia e Paul Child nel film Julie & Julia , regia di Nora Ephron finalmente, nel 1961, fu edito il 2009 (foto Sony Pictures). primo volume di Mastering the Art of French Cooking , americana. Il loro incontro, fu trasferito a Parigi. In questa corredato dalle illustrazioni di avvenuto in un contesto così città, dove la coppia condusse Paul Child, la cui seconda parte insolito, era destinato a una vita brillante e aperta alla avrebbe visto la luce soltanto trasformarsi in una relazione mondanità, il marito introdusse una decade più tardi. Sull’onda d’amore solida, intensa e Julia ai piaceri della haute del successo riscosso dal libro complice, che sarebbe durata cuisine . Lei avrebbe sempre nacque The French Chef , un per tutta la vita. Julia e Paul, ricordato il loro primo pranzo a programma televisivo di cucina dopo due anni di fidanzamento, Rouen, a base di ostriche e in cui Julia, con uno stile si sposarono nel 1946 negli Stati sogliola alla mugnaia, come una personale e accattivante, Uniti e rimasero in patria fino a vera e propria rivelazione, un realizzava in diretta alcuni tra i quando, due anni più tardi, Paul ‘dischiudersi dell’anima e dello più celebri piatti della tradizione 3 travelcarnet.i t GIUGNO travelcarnet.i t La magia della cucina La costellazione del Capricorno, segno zodiacale di Terra governato da Saturno. (foto Library of Congres). A sinistra, la costellazione del Leone, segno zodiacale di fuoco governato dal Sole. (foto Library of Congres) culinaria francese. La passione, comprensione, anche nel famoso film Julie & trasmissione in breve divenne condivisione. Paul era una guida Julia , si concluse con la morte di popolarissima e andò in onda per lei, la ascoltava con pazienza, Paul, avvenuta nel 1994, a 92 senza interruzione dal 1963 al sorrideva per la sua simpatica anni. Lei gli sopravvisse di dieci 1973; ogni episodio, esuberanza e, soprattutto, al anni, spegnendosi nel 2004, a immancabilmente, si concludeva momento opportuno, la sapeva soli due giorni dal suo con un garrulo e squillante Bon indirizzare con amore verso le novantaduesimo compleanno. appétit! che Julia augurava ai scelte più giuste, aiutandola a La stanza della cucina di Julia, suoi telespettatori. sfruttare al meglio le sue qualità. disegnata per lei dal marito e set Estroversa, volitiva, capace di Da vero Capricorno (era nato il del suo show televisivo, calamitare su di sé attenzione e 15 gennaio del 1902), Paul era ricostruita con la mobilia ammirazione, Julia rivelava una un uomo pragmatico e sicuro di originale, è esposta al Museo personalità molto in sintonia con sé; le difficoltà della vita non lo Nazionale di Storia Americana a il suo segno zodiacale, il Leone, scoraggiavano, anzi, lo Washington; guardando la cui apparteneva essendo nata il stimolavano a lottare per fotografia di questa ‘storica’ 15 agosto 1912. Del Leone perseguire gli obiettivi che si era cucina, sembra quasi che dietro possedeva inoltre l’intelligenza prefissato. La profondità quei fornelli ci sia ancora Julia, vivace e la grande capacità d’animo, la serietà, la solidità che, con passione, ci insegna a organizzativa e la capacità tipiche del Capricorno erano guardare al cibo come a un di autoaffermarsi con impegno e tratti evidenti nella personalità piacere irrinunciabile, combattività, consapevole del di Paul che, in linea con le ricordandoci con malizia che “il proprio valore. In amore, Julia caratteristiche del segno, solo momento buono per era sempre stata molto esigente fondava le proprie relazioni sulla consumare cibi dietetici è e aveva preferito mantenersi condivisione di interessi comuni mentre si aspetta che la bistecca libera da legami affettivi e sulla confidenza profonda. Per sia cotta”. impegnativi, finché aveva Julia, energica Leonessa, era un conosciuto Paul. Il loro compagno Capricorno * psicoterapeuta di scuola matrimonio era una affidabile, concreto, presente. La junghiana straordinaria alchimia di loro storia d’amore, narrata 4 travelcarnet.i t GIUGNO travelcarnet.i t.
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