Julia Child focuses on tossed salads and French dressings, preparing mixed green salads, mixed vegetable salads and French dressing. She also demonstrates how to dress and serve salad the French way.
About the French Chef:
Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series from the 1960s, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her signature passionate way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat and think about food.
About Julia Child on PBS:
Spark some culinary inspiration by revisiting Julia Child’s groundbreaking cooking series, including The French Chef, Baking with Julia, Julia Child: Cooking with Master Chefs and much more. These episodes are filled with classic French dishes, curious retro recipes, talented guest chefs, bloopers, and Julia’s signature wit and kitchen wisdom. Discover for yourself how this beloved cultural icon introduced Americans to French cuisine, and how her light-hearted approach to cooking forever changed how we prepare, eat and think about food. Bon appétit!
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4:39 Dressing (flavorless oil, wine vinegar, pepper, salt, mustard powder, green herbs)
8:22 Chapon (garlic rubbed on stale bread, then toss in salad)
8:57 Salade Mimosa (hard boiled egg yolk sieved and minced herbs)
10:03 Mayo
18:53 French Potato Salad
21:01 Salade Niçoise
Oh my gosh, I love this woman! "You can see I'm not beating very fast" while her hands are moving like The Flash!
LOVE! Thank you!
Sorry … I live in France and we don't keep the leaves in such big size. Because it's unhandy. We cut it small so u can take it off easily with a fork.
And again all these steps 🤣
And keep the salad in the fabric in the fridge … So u can keep the salad even for 10 days btw!
What a legend.
I was going to make a joke about how this recipe has no butter but… it's so reductive in the face of Child's amazing contribution to everything we eat.
That said I can't believe there's not half a pound of butter.
Well, now I know how I broke my blender when I tried to make mayonnaise. 😅
THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never heard of Salade Niçoise. What a splendid salad. It looks like a meal in itself.
"Mayonnaise seems to frighten some people…"
Proceeds to do a multi-faceted dance with vinegar, egg yolks, and oil that frightens me…
I'm French (eh ouais les puces 😁) and the vinegar for the mayonnaise, never saw it in my family. It is maybe a stuff of French Parisian chefs but Paris is not France. (I'm from the country of the great castles) and know well Normandie and the Midi. So vinegar no. Mayonnaise is doable only with mustard and yoke. Drop by drop and then more.
I Remember watching her program while i sat beneath the ironig board and my Momma ironed clothes! Our table top tv did not receive the channel well. 1965 or 66. Mom incorporated tips into her own Southern style cooking.
My, oh my! She was definitely correct about homemade mayonnaise! I thought my mother's was the absolute best. She'd bemoan running out of the jarred kind and fall back on her homemade version for salads.
Two of my cooking idols. Mom & Julia!!!
When I was in France, we started with salad for every meal. It was a simple butter lettuce salad with a simple sauce vinigrette made in a shake jar. It was really hard to come back to America…their food was second to none.
Julia Child was a national treasure. Far ahead of her time and a liberated, freethinking woman in an era when these things were unusual. She is missed.
Thank you so very much for these golden films❤ Such a sweet woman🧡❤💚💗💙
My mom used to make the mayonnaise for my dads lunch sandwiches. I might make it mix in some herbs and use it on a roasted chicken.
“See the yellow and green”. Did nobody tell her the show aired in black and white 😂😅😊❤
I got the French Chef cookbook. It’s arranged in chapters by these shows so it’s marvelous to find a recipe in the book snd before I make it, watch the corresponding show on you tube to get hood tips on how to make it. So lovely. I’m having so much fun cooking French stile meals
Anyone having low quality meal per day and discoloured clothes indicates the individual's work has been stollen.
I cracks me up that she uses regular table salt and pours the salt out of a big cylinder container………..
love these early shows. she looks off camera for the timing, she continues to beat the oil (who'd have know if it wasn't "thick" when it was supposed to be LOL) after she made the vinegar mistake. She was tops! Thanks for postings
I prefer Romaine lettuce
Boy I wish that this was in color! I bet that platter is just gorgeous.
I remember watching her as a kid, Wow I'm glad i ran across this video 😊
She was in the secret service or something like that with her husband
Witlooove 🤭
Salad Dressing -Julia Child
DRESSING:
1 Tbl of either Wine Vinegar or lemon juice or half of each
5 Tbl veg oil
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp dry mustard powder
1 Tbl chopped green onion or scallion.
Use enough dressing to lightly coat the lettuce.
Optional: sprinkle fresh chopped
Parsley & Chives OR Tarragon OR Basil over top
then serve ~Bon Appétit!
Her mayo failed
Dressing each component of this dish makes a huge difference. Watching this again after many years I am surprised that she didn't dress the tuna and lettuce first. Later shows she did.
How can you not love this lady – making homemade mayonnaise at a time when most people outside of France would just go to the store and buy a jar of it. And Salad Nicoise, one of my favorite classic dishes but rarely seen today. I could destroy half of that salad with some crusty rustic bread and butter and a chilled bottle of Picpoul – and a nap!
She was in the secret service, a spy or something I like to imagine. And she invented shark repellent by combining rancid stinky dead smelling things that sharks hate. Pilots who flew over seawater carried it.