* At least one recipe for shark deterrents was developed with the help of Julia Child, who, before introducing mainstream America to French cuisine, worked for the Office of Strategic Services (the World War II equivalent of the CIA), where she was tasked with cooking up coatings to prevent sharks from accidentally bumping into and setting off underwater explosives. This is also where she met her eventual husband, intelligence officer Paul Child, who, in 1948, was transferred to the US Information Agency in France, fatefully exposing Julia (and thereby much of the world) to the joys of French cooking.