Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

An installation by Marie Watt commemorating Northwest servicemen and -women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Julia Child
1912–2004
Submitted by Orland Nutt

Chef, teacher, media personality, gourmet and gourmand. Brought classical French cooking into American homes ; wellspring of American cuisine from postwar to present. Six feet tall. In this country, food as we know it started with her.