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.

Julia child makes French Onion Soup, the most popular French soup, as well as a superb Mediterranean vegetable soup. Julia demonstrates how to slice onions fast, how to cook and brown onions, how to make onion soup gratinee, how to make simple and tasty vegetable soup, how to chop vegetables fast and how to make a cheese and garlic sauce for soup.

Julia Child makes a great French meal -- an all-in-one casserole, and demonstrates how to truss and brown a whole chicken, how to roast it the French way in a casserole with various vegetables and how to carve a whole chicken. These tips work for all meats prepared this way, including veal, pork, duck, turkey and game hens.

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.

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.

Julia Child prepares everybody's favorite savory French pie -- Quiche Lorraine. She demonstrates the perfect pie dough recipe and makes a pastry shell, and she shows how to make several types of quiches.