“My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.”

—  Julia Child

Letter to Avis DeVoto, January 30, 1953, collected in As Always Julia ed. Joan Reardon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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