Julia Child and the Zombie Apocalypse
Last night, my wife and I ended the evening watching the movie, Julie and Julia. If you haven’t seen it, give it a look over. It combines the story of a frustrated writer with the story of a frustrated housewife (soon to be cooking legend) and tells the story of how two women separated by half a century commune with one another. Well, sort of.
It got me to thinking about zombies (what doesn’t get me thinking about zombies) for when the zombies do start to outnumber the living and our friends and neighbors start being consumed by the dozen, cooking, believe it or not, is going to be a very important part of life. Once the dead start accumulating in serious numbers, the whole idea of eating is going to be turned on its head. Sure, while electric power remains, you will be able to cook on stovetops and microwaves. But once the power goes, it’s all about using a good old fashioned fire and I’m guessing, the dead will be attracted to the flickering light like, er, well, moths to a flame.
Also, as you mange to survive the slaughter, the lack of vitamin rich diet will certainly play hell with anyone. I imagine that canned food will only get you so far and after a few weeks of eating your twentieth can of cranberry sauce, a zombie might start looking a little tasty.
So how would you handle the food situation? Would you hunker down and return to the days of hunting and gathering? Would you scavenge the abandoned cities for whatever you could find? Or would food be even an issue with all the fair game running around? Whatever your answer may be, I’m sure it will be interesting.
That said, I’m certain that Julia Child would be quite happy to miss the zombie apocalypse.
If zombies are attracted to flames like moths couldn’t we just set a bunch of fires and wait for all the zombies in the area to walk into them and be roasted?