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

TV Show · Reality

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 20 episodes from her original 1960s series, The French Chef. In her signature style, Julia demonstrates such classic recipes as cheese souffle, roasted turkey, madeleines, and many more delicious dishes.

1962 · 29m

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.

28m
EPISODE 3

Casserole Roast Chicken

How to truss and roast a chicken for chicken casserole.

28m
EPISODE 4

French Omelette

Julia Child teaches a lesson on how to make a real French omelette. She demonstrates two omelette-making methods, prepares a recipe for a delicious fresh tomato sauce, and shows how to do ahead-of-time omelettes that are gratineed with tomato sauce and sour cream.

28m
EPISODE 5

Scallops

Julia Child whips up Coquilles St. Jacques, the French dish with sea scallops. She shows how to poach scallops in white wine, how to make the accompanying sauce, how to prepare the dish ahead of time and how to gratinee the final dish.

28m
EPISODE 7

Fruit Tarts

Tips for making fruit tarts.

28m
EPISODE 8

Chicken Breasts and Rice

Ease and elegance with chicken breasts and rice. Julia Child hows how to bone chicken breasts, how to poach them in butter, how to make a winey cheese sauce, how to boil rice so it is fluffy and how to fix rice ahead of time.

28m