deja vu...

today i watched what i believe is jacques pepin's new show - "jacques pepin's fast food" or something like that. it was tivo'd instead of "jacques and julia cooking at home". behind jacques' left shoulder, i spotted something curiously out of place in his beige ethan allan dining area - a wooden cutout of a painted black cat with a white tummy. ordinarily, i wouldn't have bothered thinking about it, but that cat was familiar to me, like an old friend. i'd seen it before, many times, but i'd never seen this show. then it dawned on me... it belonged in julia's kitchen, next to her window.

she's really gone.

how fitting it is, then, that her great friend and admirer, jacques pepin, should take a piece of her kitchen with him on his latest endeavor.