The name is Child. Julia Child.

Julia, we always suspected there was more to you, and luckily, your targets never did.

So the First Lady of Cooking on Television served in the corps of American spies prior and during World War II.

We forget there was a time when ordinary Americans played a role in the spy game, before our country decided it needed to monitor us as much as enemies abroad. Child was not the only famous one -Eccentric catcher Moe Berg's photos taken during a baseball barnstorming tour through Japan provided important intelligence for bombing runs a decade later.

They should have kept her on board when the corps folded after WWII ended - she could have baked poisoned dishes for the CIA to serve up to hostile foreign leaders.

Think about the scenarios. Has Charles de Gaullebeen a little too mouthy lately? Has Willy Brandt been yammering too much about Ostpolitik for the CIA's liking? Watch out for special ingredients from that marble-mouthed, awkward woman in the kitchen.

Instead, her machinations were confined to public television, and the world a better off for it.