Thursday, December 12, 2019

Julia's Kitchen

Julia Child's book Mastering the art of French Cooking, and her groundbreaking television cooking shows revolutionized cooking in America.  She introduced technique, and ingredients, urged home cooks to be fearless.  She was a stickler for "one right way" to do things, I think you take the right way and do many many things that way.  

 Her kitchen, lock-stock-and-barrel, is on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. 

 Have you read any of her books, or watched videos of her cooking? 
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14 comments:

  1. Mistress Maddie12/12/2019

    I have seen repeats of her show and love watching her. She was my aunt's role model...she has about four of Julia's books and the Art of French Cooking signed by her at a meet and greet, will be coming to me one day my aunt says. If I lived with my aunt I'd be 400lbs.

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    1. Travel12/12/2019

      Inside every thin person is a fat person crying out, feed me-just feed me.

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  2. Moving with Mitchell12/12/2019

    I always loved watching her show and I later years, with Jacques Pepin, she was hilarious. But read her books? They’re COOKbooks!

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  3. anne marie in philly12/12/2019

    her shows were funny, yet serious. it was that french accent. there is NO one right way with a recipe; like a knitting pattern, I remove and add my own touches. cause knitting patterns, like recipes, are only suggestions.

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    1. Travel12/12/2019

      I like the concept of only a suggestion

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    2. anne marie in philly12/12/2019

      for example, if a recipe calls for 1 tsp of vanilla, I change it to 1 TBL. cause I like vanilla.

      in a knitting pattern, I can change the stitch patterns to my hearts content.

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    3. Travel12/12/2019

      I drive J crazy, I cook by concept and technique, not chemistry formula.

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    4. Deedles12/12/2019

      BH keeps telling me that speed limit signs are not suggestions. I do have a lead foot, sometimes :)

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  4. Deedles12/12/2019

    Nope, but I did see her story told on Drunk History.

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    1. Travel12/12/2019

      Two bottles of wine, one for the dish and one for the chef

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  5. Debra She Who Seeks12/12/2019

    I've only ever seen clips of her shows and never read any of her cookbooks.

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    1. Travel12/12/2019

      The early TV shows are rather dated, the later one's she was not always up to it. Her books tended to be a little dense.

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  6. Ur-spo12/15/2019

    Reading this made me sad to realize last Christmas I asked and received her cookbooks - and didn't make a darn thing from them.

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