Congratulations to the Denver Post. Their food section’s tribute to Julia Child, which unfortunately has been removed from the Denver Post’s website, won first place for special section in the large newspaper category of the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters Association awards last week.
As reported in Thursday’s Denver Post, "Remembering Julia," published on August 18, 2004 featured remembrances of encounters with Julia by staff writer Ellen Sweets, dining critic Kyle Wagner and food editor Kristen Browning-Blas.
Guest essays from former food editors Bill St. John and John Kessler, Cook’s Illustrated editor Christopher Kimball and wine columnist Tara Q. Thomas accompanied the staff’s favorite recipes from Child’s cookbooks.
This Mama Cooks! felt that expanding the special section and adding more of Julia’s recipes, like the one for chocolate mousse, would make a terrific book. At least the Denver Post should make the section available online. I didn’t keep it which is a shame because it was a wonderful momento and a fantastic tribute to a great lady.
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The Denver Post food/dining section for 12/8/04
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Kristen, Ellen and Kyle have taken a mediocre food section and raised it to world class levels. They do their best work when they and the other writers collaborate on a single topic. This award was probably given because the Denver Post devoted the most coverage to Julia’s passing. However, the Post writers were no different than 99% of all the other newspaper food writers in America who devoted their writing about Julia’s passing to describing how they met Julia. It was almost as if the food writers of America had a contest to see who had met Julia the most and was, therefore, the most important. The award should have been given to Erica Markus of Long Island’s Newsday for her article Inspired by Julia, How the French Chef gave home cooks that elusive ingredient: confidence. She must be the most humble food writer in America, being able to write an article about Julia without ever mentioning that she had ever met Julia. Its a shame that the others couldn’t have written about the real story – the impact Julia had on ordinary cooks working in their own homes.