Julia Child’s poached eggs

There’s a lot to love, admire and miss about Julia Child. There is, of course, her iconic and eminently enjoyable tenure on television. There’s the fact she spent World War II serving as an agent in the precursor to the CIA. There’s the fact that she introduced wider America to French cuisine and traditional European cooking techniques, and that she did so with incredible zest and good humor. Today, and perhaps most importantly, we’re loving her for how she made cooking seem so fun, with recipes too tempting not to try and a way of explaining things that demystified even the trickiest techniques. Case in point? Her poached eggs!