Julia Child's shadow looms large in kitchen Florida Times-Union
By Liz Van Hooser Decades before Rachael Ray and Emeril Lagasse were becoming stars for turning cooking into entertainment, Julia Child walked public television viewers through the pillars of French cuisine in shows such as "The French Chef" and "Baking with Julia."
She wasn't as cutesy as Ray or as bombastic as Lagasse, but Julia had a cadence and charm that made her shows hard to turn off. Even if you had no intention of making a bouillabaisse or French bread from scratch, the plain-looking woman of extraordinary height (she was 6 feet 2), had an infectious enthusiasm for good food ...
I just finished watching another DVD of "The French Chef" she lacks polish compared to our TV chefs today, but her enthusiasm more than made up for it.
She was such a great teacher, going over each step in such detail. I am really glad that they didn't edit out the mishaps back then, they made her seem "human" and and I am sure that home cooks could relate.
I appreciate her more now than I ever did before.
__________________ MAC
Before you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them you are a mile away and you have their shoes!
JC has always been and always will be The Queen of Cuisine. A true cultural revolutionary icon who inspired me as a young child and still lives in my heart, my culinary soul and my kitchen.
__________________ "Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit."
I think she has made cooking on TV what it is today. That means she has made me what I am today. No Food Network, no website. I really feel that her and Emeril are the jump points for the sky rocket of cooking shows we see today.
I was 4 when I started watching "Creative Cookery" which was a local cooking show in Chicago. I so loved watching Francoise Pope and his son, Bob, whip up different dishes and cakes. That's what started my interest.
Years later Julia's show came on PBS and the whole family would watch her. She was so candid and if she made a mistake, or something went wrong, she'd just laugh it off. Those shows were way before editing and, IMO, much more fun to watch.
I loved watching Julia and when she did make a mistake, she would just laugh it off and get on going. She's the "godmother" of TV cooking as we know it today.
__________________ Most of all, cook from the heart, and you’ll never be lonely when the dinner bell rings! - Chef Robert Irvin
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