Tess Barker

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309 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast · Julia Child’s Memoir My Life In France (with Tess Barker) · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

We did the contract under my name, and then I, like, gave her money.

And I'm like, okay, I do have some issues with the way, her dynamic with her female collaborators.

This is normal, yes?

I don't know anything about cooking, but I do know something about developing a musical.

And that can take at least 10 years.

I had the opposite reaction to that because to me, I'm like, yes, this book is about the creative process.

And it's about how boring and frustrating it can be and about how you've just got to get back in there and get good at making mayonnaise, even though you've made it 20 times.

I think that she knew that the attention to detail was her strength.

Because she was facing pressure.

I mean, the publishers were pressuring her, like, just make the recipe more simple.

Yeah, just make the Boryeong recipe, a couple things of wine, some mushrooms, and beef.

What's the problem?

And she was the one that's like, no, it's the fact that you add the cream after doing this.

And should I blanch the cabbage?

And that's what made her Julia fucking child.

And she knew that.

Completely.

And I think that's what's one thing that's very inspiring to me about her is that she knew what she had on her hands even before anyone else did.

And I think you have to be that delusional to be a successful artist because the world will try to beat you down.

You're going to go in with your pilot and have people tell you no one's buying TV shows.

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