Name: The French Chef
Released: 1962-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Julia Child

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Julia Child teaches home chefs simple ways to cook several French dishes, from a croissant to the classic boeuf bourguignon.

Reality · 1962 · 29 min

Starring Julia Child

Director David Atwood , Russell Morash

EPISODE 1

Boeuf Bourguignon

Julia Child makes her famous French beef stew in red wine with mushrooms and onions, demonstrating how to brown meat, how to braise meat, how to make a good brown sauce, how to braise onions and how to cut and saute mushrooms. This recipe and the skills taught relate to all stews and Coq au Vin.

28 min · 11 Feb 1963
EPISODE 18

Lobster a l'Américaine

Julia Child prepares Lobster a l'Americaine, a great French lobster dish. Julia shows how to pick out a lobster, how to prepare live lobster, including how to saute and flambe lobster and how to make the sauce Américaine.

29 min · 22 July 1963
EPISODE 1

Genoise Cake

Julia Child presents the basic recipe for layer cakes, wedding cakes and petits fours, along with the professional French recipe for buttercream; this versatile cake can play many roles, depending on how you choose to dress it.

27 min · 14 Mar 1966
EPISODE 2

Petits Fours

Julia Child gives generations of home chefs the confidence and skills to whip up all dishes French.

27 min · 21 Mar 1966
EPISODE 3

The Mayonnaise Show

Julia Child gives generations of home chefs the confidence and skills to whip up all dishes French.

27 min · 28 Mar 1966
EPISODE 4

Swordfish Dinner In A Half Hour

Swordfish steaks baked in wine and diced green beans make an unusual main course in Julia Child's three-part dinner in half an hour. Tapenade a la Provencale and Bananas Flambee round out this quick dinner that tastes anything but quick.

27 min · 4 Apr 1966