Julia Child - The French Chef
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Actor: Julia ChildBrand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Wgbh Boston
DVD Reviews of Julia Child - The French Chef
DVD Review: The French Chef
Summary: 5 Stars
This collection of programs is one of the most interesting I've ever seen. Julia Child is a very engaging, intelligent, funny woman even if you have no interest in the food she's cooking. The world is a poorer place without her. From these 18 programs on 3 VHS tapes I got an excellent foundation of cooking experience that will help me even when I'm just heating up something in the microwave. Mark Montgomery [...]DVD Review: Still useful, still entertaining!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this set for my birthday, having bought her "Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Vol 1)" years before because I found a lot of her recipes either easy to use "as is" or to adapt to my diabetic diet while still retaining the pleasure of real food. I find that even the early black and white episodes are full of useful, practical information, even as they entertain. My five year old also enjoys them - and is fascinated by black and white television, having never seen such an outlandish thing in her life aside from the brief snippet in "The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition with Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]." She particularly enjoyed the "Spinach Twins" and "The Potato Show" - particularly when Julia flipped a huge potato pancake right there. Onion soup and boullibase made an impression as well; when we went grocery shopping on Saturday, we stopped for lunch at Panera Bread. When she found they served onion soup, she insisted we had to get a bowl. I let her order one and she made it through half - doubtlessly it bore little real resemblance to Julia's (It did have cheese in it.) but it was a new taste for a five year old and you can't go wrong with that.DVD Review: The French Chef
Summary: 5 Stars
If you enjoyed the movie "Julia and Julie" about Mastering the Art of French Cooking, you will love looking back at Julia's TV cooking lessons of the early seventies. Wonderful stuff!DVD Review: Entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
I do not cook but I thoroughly enjoy watching this show, I would describe it as an educational comedy. I love Julia's little history lessons about whatever she is cooking and I especially enjoyed "the lobster show" I think you should buy it just to see that.DVD Review: French chef dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very happy with the quick delivery on this and it looks like it is in good shape. I haven't opened it because it is a Christmas gift.
Description of Julia Child - The French Chef
Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her passionate and sometimes breathless way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat, and think about food.Entertaining, fun, and real in a way that influenced every television cooking program that followed, The French Chef embraced Julia's passion for food and teaching and reflected her joie de vivre: "If I can do it, you can do it...and here's how to do it!"
Now chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia's love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most-loved dishes with this special collection of 18 episodes from her original 1960s series, The French Chef. In her signature style and with bloopers intact, Julia demonstrates such classic recipes as boeuf bourguignon from her debut show, salade Nicoise, bouillabaisse a la Marseillaise, mousseline au chocolat, and many more delicious dishes.
Bon appetit!
Three servings of practical cooking advice per one serving of nostalgia is the recipe for this 18-episode culinary collector's item. The French Chef with Julia Child, the pioneering public television series which premiered in 1962, brought French cuisine to American kitchens without a dash of pretension. Child (1912-2004), a cooking legend and cultural icon with her 6'2" commanding-yet-self-deprecating presence, leads viewers through some of her favorite and classic recipes with requisite humor and congeniality. The three-disc compilation is divided into Starters and Side Dishes; Main Courses; and Desserts and Other Classics, and includes several printable recipes from each category. In vintage black and white, the collection begins with "The Potato Show" and Child's sage counsel, "When you flip anything you must have the courage of your convictions," before she flips half of her saut?ed potatoes onto the stovetop. Peppered throughout the collection are such reminders of why Child was so endearing: she let the camera roll through all her culinary disasters. In another show, "To Roast a Chicken," Child lines up five headless poultry as if arranging for a family photo, while earnestly discussing the differences between a fryer and a roaster, the "full glory of its chickendom." Even non-gourmands will find themselves captivated by such vintage entertainment, while passionate epicureans will relish step-by-step demonstrations of wonders such as boeuf bourguignon (from her debut show), salad Nicoise, bouillabaisse a la Marseillaise, and mousse au chocolat. (All ages) --Lynn Gibson
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