---
title: 'The End of an Era'
date: '2004-08-13T09:59:37-04:00'
permalink: /the-end-of-an-era/
tags:
    - life
---

[Julia Child](http://www.pbs.org/juliachild/), the woman who single-handedly saved American cuisine, [died](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/13/obit.child/) yesterday at age 91.

I suddenly need to go home, open my cookbooks, break out the sherry, and make something fabulous.

For my ability to do so — and for my ability to find food worth eating even in the furthest outposts of this country — I thank her.