OP: Cooking with Josephine and Sounds from Josephine’s Kitchen

Among the extraordinary array of figures who have appeared in kitchens over the years to feed their clients, win the hearts of their students and inspire their colleagues, one of the most memorable was a brilliant, eccentric, magnetic woman named Josephine Araldo (1897–1989).  As is sometimes the case with highly talented people, she was known to those to whom she was known—and perhaps not to many others. We cannot even find a proper obituary for this energetic little powerhouse, yet she rubbed elbows with the famous, befriended and even mentored those who went on to greater things, and commanded respect and affection from her own special following. Born in rural Brittany, she gardened from childhood and learned to use what she grew to make food that “tasted like itself.” Deciding on her vocation while still in her teens, she went to Paris where she studied at the Cordon Bleu with, among others, the great Henri-Paul Pellaprat.  She worked briefly for luminaries in the French governm