Thank you so much for spelling LASAGNE correctly. It drives me insane when most foreigners spell it ending with an A. Another mistake frequently made is calling the famous Italian marble CARRERA IT NOT. IT CARRARA and it comes from Carrara in Italy.
@@angelaberni8873 Literally half of Italy calls it "lasagna" (the singular form anyway) instead of "lasagne" (the plural form), so maybe chill your tits a bit.
It’s also fair to note that, even as Julia Child’s cookbooks contain precise renderings of time-honored dishes, her TV show revealed a confident, casual cook who might forget the garlic or add too much cottage cheese, but who soldiered on without apologizing. Now that’s a model worth following.
My Swedish grandmother from Nebraska, watched Julia on PBS religiously! She must have learned a lot, because she was a great cook (1916-2016). She lived to be 100 years old.
I love that a Swedish woman from Nebraska watched a French Chef teach American women french cooking on TV. The different cultures coming together is delightful. I never understood people who weren’t curious about other cultures.
I like to think - and have good reason to believe - the longevity of both Julia + your grandmother was directly related to the quality of the food they made ❤❤
My bf actually met Julia later in life several times as a college student in Santa Barbara, and when somebody asked her how she made it to her '80's, she said: "Red meat and vodka."
@@getgaymin I saw a show of her once with Jacques Pepin and when they were just about to sit down to eat together, Jacques starts pouring the wine, and she gets up, goes to the frig, takes out a beer, cracks it open, and says "Well, I prefer beer!" I laughed so hard!!
Julia was my client for 30 years and I absolutely adored her. Except nobody called her Julia; unless you are an intimate she was Mrs Child, . She was enormously charming, somewhat quirky, and until Paul became very ill in old age, you could see that they were an adoring couple. I still miss her after all these years.
@@bethotoole6569 she was just a real charmer, and what a sense of humor! It was heartbreaking when Paul developed brain damage as a result of his brain being starved of oxygen during heart surgery. People have said that Paul child had Alzheimer's disease but that was not actually the case. It was very touching to see a couple as much in love as they were after so many years.
I'm an Australian, grew up in the 60 sand 70s. Was not aware of this divine creature until I saw the movie just recently. Now I watch her on RUclips. She's utterly insane, I love her.
She’s just REAL. And that’s why she’s a natural treasure. She is relatable, and she makes you feel more confident in your own kitchen. Rachel Ray, Paula Deen, Emeril Lagasse, even Gordon Ramsay, NONE of them instill the same feelings as Julia Child did!
Everything about how was UNreal. From her cosplaying as a woman (if you can't see that's a man, then I can't help you) to her careeer as a spy for intelligence agencies. The only REAL thing about "her" was her cooking, I suppose....
The best part of Julia on RUclips is we can stop and rewind and pause where as our mothers had to quickly find a pad and pen to copy her recipes… and when the show was over it was over for them..I’m thankful and I Mean so thankful My mother was such a beautiful cook and mostly baker and when she passed away I was Fortunate to inherit her Recipe box. I hope Today’s generation start recipe boxes ..sadly prob not because everything is online.
Only if we could have on demand back then. I hated missing an episode of something and never knowing when it would be on again. Often you had to wait a very long time, even decades for some things that are readily available now whenever you want it.
Julia was real. No fake for the camera nonsense. She was just herself, honest not a snob. It’s interesting she’s using an electric stove at a time when many chefs used gas.
Well. This is a tv set-I imagine running a gas line might have presented logistical challenges-or legal ones. I can’t imagine anything else in a studio that would run on gas…
@@sarahferrell5458 good point but they could’ve used propane or butane without using a permanent line. Fewer worries about the Co2 issues but that makes sense
I have a friend who even today has a very similar cook top, brown, with the settings part of the overhead fan. An obliging service man keeps it going. Love it.
People really need to forget today’s RUclips videos and propel their minds backwards to the time when the television programs were aired. The available cameras and other technology dictated much, as well as the studio setup, because they were often shared spaces. Putting in gas and having to have a tank around would have been dangerous and truly unnecessary, and most Americans thought gas stoves were too dirty and “low tech;” they wanted up-to-date, clean electric _everything_ when this was filmed. Anyway, Child was such an excellent chef she could work with any situation, so a portable electric cooktop obviously didn’t bother her at all….she may have used an electric stove at home because they were so ubiquitous!
Lasagna is the LAST thing I would consider for last moment guests! She’s so amazing. Takes me two days to make a lasagna. Steps. Certainly, most of us have a pasta sauce waiting to be made in our fridge. Spaghetti is the must have for me.. and of course good parm. She’s so much fun. Watching Julia is pure pleasure.
LOL You are so right! I make this all the time and takes a "minute" to do. Of course, I never have all those leftovers she has. I have to cook all of the ingredients day of.
I totally agree. My lasagna recipe takes 5 hours to make. I'm sure there are quicker ways to do it, but it would be hard to believe they are quite as delicious as doing everything from scratch. But even looking at the way Julia Child does it here, with everything prepped ahead of time for television, there is no way this would be quick and easy. Would take at LEAST 2-3 hours, probably closer to 3, or more.
Always loved Julia Child and her easy no nonsense way of cooking. And she always made you feel as though even I, as a young adult, could tackle any of her marvelous recipes! I never missed her Saturday show.
I can't explain how watching Julia makes me happy. Puts a smile on my face and joy in my heart.💗.no matter what she is cooking, I just love watching her. I have a lot of love and Respect for her. Yes I wished I could of met her, sat down shared a meal and perhaps a glass of wine.😊 I'm still learning from Julia. Her Legacy lives on. Love, respect and positivity always. Vee.✌️🕯️💕🙏🦋🌻🌠🌹🤗🥰😊🙂👋👣.
Cottage cheese has a slightly different flavor from ricotta cheese but it’s not that far different. It’s like sesame tahini doesn’t have that much different of a flavor than peanut butter.
I grew up on lasagna (in the Italian way, I expect) made with cottage cheese. My mother didn't want to pay for ricotta, cottage cheese was cheaper and it worked. I've definitely never seen or done a lasagna like this, before, though!
I’m a chef who remains inspired by all of her tricked out and amped up flavor combinations. Can’t you just taste and smell everything she describes? Her guests were definitely not disappointed with her unique spin on lasagna! Always an adventure!
SMH. The comments are just too much. This is not an exact science, its food. As many grandparents and parents said use what you have on hand. Salute Julia as the real first American cook to educate people on cooking outside the box. Today's "celebrity" chefs (if you dare to call them that) make food a project and use ingredients not many have. Julia any day over any TV cooks today.
Julia was born and raised in Southern California, traveled extensively with her husband Paul during WWII including France, then set up domestic life with him in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Please start posting the original air date in the description. PBS undoubtedly has this information on the original master tapes. It’s interesting to know the time frame for these amazing classic videos.
@@chrisben3 Thank you! That was the day before Thanksgiving in 1970. By the time this came on television, people were off work, or very close too it, and looking forward to a long holiday weekend. Julia probably recorded the show in September though.
@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Probably not. She filmed in Boston at the PBS station.. I can't remember it. It's not like today where they film a bunch of them at once. She did most of them weekly.. I had a friend who interned there for a bit.
@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Ah, so about 2 months after I was born. I got to meet Julia in about 1995 at Dayton's in Minneapolis. I told her she always remind me of my grandmother. She just looked at me and signed my cookbook.
She is so authentic in a good way. Paved the way for food streamers of today. She used cottage cheese rather than that Italian cheese, ricotta, that she couldn't remember what the name of it was.
Oh my....this was great ... everyone cooks different...like that she is normal, practical and seasoned in what she puts together. We sometimes have to incorporate what we have in stock (she uses leftovers, yay). Homecooking! Cooking is fun...some of us want fancy, some like simple! Try everything...why not? Plus, FOOD IS GETTING EXPENSIVE! Goodness!
Julia was a great chef and very entertaining here in NZ during the late 70's and early 80's. Loved her accent and her rustic way of pulling a chicken apart. Bravo
People don't realize that the fruits and vegetables that we eat today are quite different from older days. Yesterday's tomatoes had seeds that were bitter with tough skins. Carrot skins were bitter and needed to be removed. Today's fruits and vegetables have been modified to eliminate bitterness and toughness. And BTW, that doesn't make them GMO!
Even modern tomato skins will make your tomato sauce very bitter when they cook down. That’s why recipes usually call for canned tomatoes to skip the blanching process.
Delicious and creative. She’s doing her own version of lasagna and stated that it wasn’t Italian and that the French take recipes from different cultures and make it their own.
Julia got LOTS of hate mail over this, believe it or not. It turns out many were disgusted by her handling of lasagna as a vehicle for leftovers, or were just offended at a French chef doing lasagna at all. They kept a form letter on file to send back, with a statement that this was not intended to be traditional authentic Italian lasagna, that cooking is about trying new ideas and combinations, and including the recipe. They never got a reply to that!
What is interesting is that, as I understand it from speaking to a coworker who is of Italian heritage and lived in Italy for a number of years, there are many variations of lasagna served throughout Italy. In southern Italy, the lasagna is more like Americans think of lasagna. In northern Italy, white sauce and other ingredients are in it. Kind of like how chili is cooked differently in the United States in different parts of the country.
Watching it, I felt the same way. She just slopped everything she could get her hands on (cottage cheese? Ugh). There was no delicacy, no finesse, and yet it was still grossly over complicated (that dance with combined canned and fresh tomatoes was a lot of work and yet a complete waste of energy).
@@nathanjustus6659but never pasta with chicken. (In fact, chicken is rarely cooked in Italy; Italians like eggs too much to kill the egg factory. Meals like chicken parmigiana are American, not Italian.)
@@jpp7783you have the slightest idea what Italian cousine is about. Chicken is eating vin mane different recipes,so is beef,pork, lam , turkey, fish, wild game ,fruits , vegetable, risotto, legumes, and much more that's meets the eye . It's called La Buona cucina gastronomica Italiana regionale.
Let us not forget that Julia said, "we have unexpected company today" then proceeded to use whatever was at hand to cook a meal. The audience when this was first aired is vastly different than today. Too all the negative commenters, don't nock it until you have tried it. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Nobody EVER has unexpected guests that will have even one course. But I love anything she says no matter what. She's the voice of courage to cook of my childhood!
This was and, in some old fashioned environments, still is something that happens. It is pretty usual for older maids and grannies to have some concoction ready to feed unprevented guests.
Perhaps company traveling long distances found a pay phone to alert you they were soon to arrive. Perhaps they didn't find a pay phone. Or husband visited with an old or new friend or client. Invitations were extended as it's considered rude to make them eat alone and spend hard earned money at - gasp- a restaurant. NOT hospitable or nice. That's the way it was in those days. And men didn't cook.
It’s more like a one pot leftovers dish than lasagna but I’ll definitely give it a try. Her nonchalance might help me to rediscover the fun in cooking.
Julia is naturally adorable and makes me laugh as much as I find her generous, enthusiastic and full of humor. I discovered her recently in the film Julia & Julie with Meryl Streep. Beautiful person, Julia... I am French and she reminds me of 2 French women cooks. Maïté (cook with a show: La cuisine des Mousquetaires) with great moments of laughter, among which, when she does not manage to kill a live eel or when she adds a "small" dose of Calvados (she empties almost half the bottle...). And to La Mère Léa (mother Léa), a great cook renowned among Les Mères Lyonnaises (mothers of Lyon in France) who did her own shopping. There are one or two videos of her, including one where she meets her friend Paul Bocuse, young but already renowned chef. That is the cuisine of the Mothers, and Julia pays tribute to them with the same spirit! It should be noted that Paul Bocuse learned his excellence in cooking from famous Mères Lyonnaises, such as La Mère Eugénie Brazier (the restaurant still exists in Lyon, in the 1st arrondissement, in the Rhône department, like Paul Bocuse's restaurant in Collonge-au-mont-d'Or very close to Lyon, 7 km from the center of Lyon). The same is true for Georges Blanc who learned his excellence from Mères Elisa and Paulette Blanc, respectively his paternal grandmother and his mother. The restaurant still exists in Vonnas in the Ain department, near Bourg-en-Bresse and less than 70 km from Lyon. Bon appétit ! 😀😋
I just made a tomato sauce for a chicken pizzaiolo. I used a 28 ounce can of peeled plum. I didn't puree them but instead, and admittedly, more effort, I used shears to snip up the tomatoes, making a very textured sauce. A food mill is something that I may incorporate one day.
Something I loved hearing about this show is that when she had food scraps she would scrape it onto the floor, and then later on they would clean it up after the show because there are no breaks in the show they just kept filming, idk how true that is but it sounds about right.
As a kid back, then you could tell whose Mom had watched this show because that was what she made the next day. What great moms and neighborhoods we had back then! I loved them all, and they all loved us kids.
She just so honest! Instead of glamorous housewives with perfect hairstyles and manicure she get down and dirty and show you how to work a kitchen She’s an icon!
Today with spaghetti sauce bottled noodles that cook at the same time it's baking, it can be done rather quickly, , but I didn't know really what lasagna was until the later 70s
I feel like my cooking standards are like Mrs Childs, it's not perfect in the process but my kids and hubby love my cooking, it's not a top star chefs way but it gets done and makes my family happy. I had family members who watch me chop onions and tell me, you are doing it wrong. Like who cares, my family are being fed tonight and they dont care
hello , julia was such a treasure💯💯💯💯.........i watched her ever since , i was a young teen . RIP , she is much missed❤❤❤❤❤. great share thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.............
I have an old American cookbook with a very similar recipe for lasagna Malibran which the author remembered eating in Venice Italy. It comprised cooked chicken, mushrooms, braised sliced celery, ricotta and mozzarella. Finished with Parmesan. It was a very pretty white lasagna.
I honestly do this recipe several times a year. Just Hubby and me so I make several smaller and freeze. I really like this one because there is not as much red sauce as the Italian version. Also, so versatile since you can use left over things, leave out the chicken if you want and use whatever cheeses you want, etc. I make the red sauce all the time for other recipes. The recipe is written in one of her books which I have.
I remember watching Julia Child’s show from the beginning😏I also have a signed cookbook from her, She is truly a treasure. I don't remember how many times I've seen this lasagna episode but each time is hilarious.
My grandma Loretta made traditional mozzarella ricotta cheese 🧀 lasagna with me in her kitchen during the late 80’s in her home 🏡 on two acres in Riverside, CA…I love you Grandma Loretta 💕👵🏼 💋♥️👱🏼♀️💕 R.I.P. April 2021
“Fingers are not part of this lasagne recipe”!! LOVE this woman :-)
Lol 😂 💜
I just caught her saying that!! 🤣🤣🤣 I love this lady❤️❤️🥰🥰
Thank you so much for spelling LASAGNE correctly. It drives me insane when most foreigners spell it ending with an A. Another mistake frequently made is calling the famous Italian marble CARRERA IT NOT. IT CARRARA and it comes from Carrara in Italy.
Dan Akaroyd SNL😂
@@angelaberni8873 Literally half of Italy calls it "lasagna" (the singular form anyway) instead of "lasagne" (the plural form), so maybe chill your tits a bit.
It’s also fair to note that, even as Julia Child’s cookbooks contain precise renderings of time-honored dishes, her TV show revealed a confident, casual cook who might forget the garlic or add too much cottage cheese, but who soldiered on without apologizing. Now that’s a model worth following.
This was copied and pasted from a 2019 article about the episode by Kelsey Dimberg.
Julia said never apologize. Just put it out there. Most people will not know the difference.
She was right!!
I don't agree with the oil in the water.
@@JerseyCityGirl9
I don't either however it was common practice back then. That's how I was taught to do it...
Things change.
Who doesn't love Julia Child? A national and natural treasure.
Most indeed. She’s always fun to watch and listen to. Despite her tall stature, she’s unexpectedly delicate and very dainty. A true gem.
Me
Treasured by the World...
Whenever I hear lasagna I think of piwdipie no matter what
@@888money94brain rot
My Swedish grandmother from Nebraska, watched Julia on PBS religiously! She must have learned a lot, because she was a great cook (1916-2016). She lived to be 100 years old.
I love that a Swedish woman from Nebraska watched a French Chef teach American women french cooking on TV.
The different cultures coming together is delightful. I never understood people who weren’t curious about other cultures.
I like to think - and have good reason to believe - the longevity of both Julia + your grandmother was directly related to the quality of the food they made ❤❤
We have some great cooking here in Nebraska! And many Swedish (and Danish) descendants!
Nothing more entertaining than a wined-up Julia! 😄
My bf actually met Julia later in life several times as a college student in Santa Barbara, and when somebody asked her how she made it to her '80's, she said: "Red meat and vodka."
@@getgaymin I saw a show of her once with Jacques Pepin and when they were just about to sit down to eat together, Jacques starts pouring the wine, and she gets up, goes to the frig, takes out a beer, cracks it open, and says "Well, I prefer beer!" I laughed so hard!!
I remember seeing Robin Williams doing a wined up impersonation of her somewhere. hilarious.
Danny Aykroyd.... Save the liver!!! 😂😂😂
That's why she love living in France so much! Nobody noticed how many "samples" you imbibed.
"Very often I don't do anyhting they say on the box" hahahaha I loved this part.
Me neither Julia!
You want it to taste more homemade rather than something constructed by Duncan Hines?
Julia was my client for 30 years and I absolutely adored her. Except nobody called her Julia; unless you are an intimate she was Mrs Child, . She was enormously charming, somewhat quirky, and until Paul became very ill in old age, you could see that they were an adoring couple. I still miss her after all these years.
How lucky you were to have known her!!
I envy you...
@@bethotoole6569 she was just a real charmer, and what a sense of humor! It was heartbreaking when Paul developed brain damage as a result of his brain being starved of oxygen during heart surgery. People have said that Paul child had Alzheimer's disease but that was not actually the case. It was very touching to see a couple as much in love as they were after so many years.
thank you for sharing that 🫠
Thank you for that personal glimpse of Mrs Child
I always pictured Julia Child living around the corner from Mr. Rogers.
😂
She put olive oil in the water! No!!!
@@lauraamundson769 depends what your doing lassange noodles i would concurre.
And Bob Ross lived down the street 😂❤
to eat the children watching?
I'm an Australian, grew up in the 60 sand 70s. Was not aware of this divine creature until I saw the movie just recently. Now I watch her on RUclips. She's utterly insane, I love her.
Take a look at the TV Series also :)
Absolutely non Italian. What a horrible mess. And to call it peasant food. Julie...stay in your own country.....PLEASE!!!
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@@bazcar22 have you seen Dan Ackroyd’s parody of her on SNL (Saturday Night Live) from the 1970s? It’s on RUclips and it’s a gem! Julia loved it.
Same. Same, I have commented similarly on other episodes on RUclips.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Her style of talking is as distinctive as Kathryn Hepburn.
She’s just REAL. And that’s why she’s a natural treasure. She is relatable, and she makes you feel more confident in your own kitchen. Rachel Ray, Paula Deen, Emeril Lagasse, even Gordon Ramsay, NONE of them instill the same feelings as Julia Child did!
Everything about how was UNreal. From her cosplaying as a woman (if you can't see that's a man, then I can't help you) to her careeer as a spy for intelligence agencies. The only REAL thing about "her" was her cooking, I suppose....
Martha Stewart is another good, homey chef!
@@ozrob76 Honey, nobody wants your help. You need to GET help.
@@ozrob76 Yeah, you need some mental help
The best part of Julia on RUclips is we can stop and rewind and pause where as our mothers had to quickly find a pad and pen to copy her recipes… and when the show was over it was over for them..I’m thankful and I
Mean so thankful
My mother was such a beautiful cook and mostly baker and when she passed away I was
Fortunate to inherit her
Recipe box. I hope
Today’s generation start recipe boxes ..sadly prob not because everything is online.
I've got a recipe box! It's where I keep recipes I got online, from other people, or came up with myself
I want to go back in time. She was my comfort tv watching in the '70's and '80's when I was a kid.
I agree.
Only if we could have on demand back then. I hated missing an episode of something and never knowing when it would be on again. Often you had to wait a very long time, even decades for some things that are readily available now whenever you want it.
3 tbsp of salt looks like 3 handfuls, lol. I love it.
Julia was real. No fake for the camera nonsense. She was just herself, honest not a snob. It’s interesting she’s using an electric stove at a time when many chefs used gas.
Well. This is a tv set-I imagine running a gas line might have presented logistical challenges-or legal ones. I can’t imagine anything else in a studio that would run on gas…
@@sarahferrell5458 good point but they could’ve used propane or butane without using a permanent line. Fewer worries about the Co2 issues but that makes sense
@@lechatbotte. I not fed you be of the episodes I watched was sponsored by General Electric-sponsorships like that used to be very common.
I have a friend who even today has a very similar cook top, brown, with the settings part of the overhead fan. An obliging service man keeps it going. Love it.
People really need to forget today’s RUclips videos and propel their minds backwards to the time when the television programs were aired. The available cameras and other technology dictated much, as well as the studio setup, because they were often shared spaces. Putting in gas and having to have a tank around would have been dangerous and truly unnecessary, and most Americans thought gas stoves were too dirty and “low tech;” they wanted up-to-date, clean electric _everything_ when this was filmed. Anyway, Child was such an excellent chef she could work with any situation, so a portable electric cooktop obviously didn’t bother her at all….she may have used an electric stove at home because they were so ubiquitous!
I about died laughing when she re-assembled the finished lasagna (replaced the slice). BRILLIANT! 😂
Lasagne.
I loved her so much! She had such a marvelous sense of humor, and she was not fussy at all.
A little more is better than a little less... words to live by ala Julia Child
Never have a guest leave hungry!
Dude, Julia Child is such a charming character of a human.
This looks absolutely delicious.... It's an original creation. She is teaching folks to be creative and do their own thing. Go Julia!
You gotta love Julia, she was a hoot!
When cooking shows were a true spectacle ❤❤❤
Lasagna is the LAST thing I would consider for last moment guests! She’s so amazing. Takes me two days to make a lasagna. Steps. Certainly, most of us have a pasta sauce waiting to be made in our fridge. Spaghetti is the must have for me.. and of course good parm. She’s so much fun. Watching Julia is pure pleasure.
LOL You are so right! I make this all the time and takes a "minute" to do. Of course, I never have all those leftovers she has. I have to cook all of the ingredients day of.
I totally agree. My lasagna recipe takes 5 hours to make. I'm sure there are quicker ways to do it, but it would be hard to believe they are quite as delicious as doing everything from scratch. But even looking at the way Julia Child does it here, with everything prepped ahead of time for television, there is no way this would be quick and easy. Would take at LEAST 2-3 hours, probably closer to 3, or more.
@@schifahrer123 Oh but just do it. I put the recipe in smaller pans and freeze it before cooking for the 2 of us. It is delish!
Always loved Julia Child and her easy no nonsense way of cooking. And she always made you feel as though even I, as a young adult, could tackle any of her marvelous recipes! I never missed her Saturday show.
I can't explain how watching Julia makes me happy. Puts a smile on my face and joy in my heart.💗.no matter what she is cooking, I just love watching her. I have a lot of love and Respect for her. Yes I wished I could of met her, sat down shared a meal and perhaps a glass of wine.😊 I'm still learning from Julia. Her Legacy lives on. Love, respect and positivity always. Vee.✌️🕯️💕🙏🦋🌻🌠🌹🤗🥰😊🙂👋👣.
I 100% agree no airs or graces, just charming, witty down to earth and a delight to watch. Always brightens my day
She’s comforting. ☺️
I love the way she makes this without fussing about ingredients - like ladling cottage cheese on it.
Cottage cheese has a slightly different flavor from ricotta cheese but it’s not that far different. It’s like sesame tahini doesn’t have that much different of a flavor than peanut butter.
Many people would not have had access to ricotta. But everyone had cottage cheese...
@@bethotoole6569 Exactly.
I grew up watching her back then. She was great. We always had mozzarella and ricotta in the NYC area.
I grew up on lasagna (in the Italian way, I expect) made with cottage cheese. My mother didn't want to pay for ricotta, cottage cheese was cheaper and it worked.
I've definitely never seen or done a lasagna like this, before, though!
Her show, unlike her books, was delightfully chaotic.
I’m a chef who remains inspired by all of her tricked out and amped up flavor combinations. Can’t you just taste and smell everything she describes? Her guests were definitely not disappointed with her unique spin on lasagna! Always an adventure!
She’s fantastic. I love Julia Childs
Child no S.
@@EricCarver-ud8wz oops thanks !
I loved watching Julia, as a child on PBS. She kept my attention and made me laugh!
I love how she calls out the things she would change next time. She was so amazing, but so relatable. Amazing woman and chef.
Hahahaha, fingers are not part. Just love her.
I love her to pieces and always will! Dearest friend and mentor of my youth.
The spaghetti laundry 😂😂😂
im concerned
SMH. The comments are just too much. This is not an exact science, its food. As many grandparents and parents said use what you have on hand. Salute Julia as the real first American cook to educate people on cooking outside the box. Today's "celebrity" chefs (if you dare to call them that) make food a project and use ingredients not many have. Julia any day over any TV cooks today.
Which comments might those be, exactly? Seems to me, the ones I've read were quite complimentary of her.
@@Nunofurdambiznez There are many of them. Mostly accusing her of making dumb cooking decisions and making food that wasnt delicious
As an Englishman , i love the way she pronounces tomato !
Julia was born and raised in Southern California, traveled extensively with her husband Paul during WWII including France, then set up domestic life with him in Cambridge Massachusetts.
As an Australian, I agree,
Me too lol
What a wonderful woman. ❤❤❤ I definitely want to try this recipe.
I love that there’s always a skill to be gained. Likewise when watching Jacques Pépin cook. There’s always a lesson in there .
She has an entertaining way of talking and showing.
I learned how to cook watching Julia Child and from her first cookbook which I still use. She is the greatest.
Please start posting the original air date in the description. PBS undoubtedly has this information on the original master tapes. It’s interesting to know the time frame for these amazing classic videos.
Season 7 Episode 8 - First aired November 25, 1970
@@chrisben3 Thank you! That was the day before Thanksgiving in 1970. By the time this came on television, people were off work, or very close too it, and looking forward to a long holiday weekend. Julia probably recorded the show in September though.
@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes
Probably not. She filmed in Boston at the PBS station.. I can't remember it.
It's not like today where they film a bunch of them at once. She did most of them weekly.. I had a friend who interned there for a bit.
@@bethotoole6569it was taped at WGBH.
@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Ah, so about 2 months after I was born. I got to meet Julia in about 1995 at Dayton's in Minneapolis. I told her she always remind me of my grandmother. She just looked at me and signed my cookbook.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! The best cooking show ever!!!!!
No specifics. Stunning.
She is so authentic in a good way. Paved the way for food streamers of today. She used cottage cheese rather than that Italian cheese, ricotta, that she couldn't remember what the name of it was.
Just by the way she handle the knives you know she is a real cook.
She also doesn't know what a lasagna is
@@Mayssoun3121She’s dead, she doesn’t care. Neither should you. Good lord.
Why did my eyes start watering when she started chopping the onions? 😆
Sad that Anyone would have been offended rather than attentive, entertained, and thankful for a new recipe idea ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I loved watching Julia Child growing up
Oh my....this was great ... everyone cooks different...like that she is normal, practical and seasoned in what she puts together. We sometimes have to incorporate what we have in stock (she uses leftovers, yay). Homecooking! Cooking is fun...some of us want fancy, some like simple! Try everything...why not? Plus, FOOD IS GETTING EXPENSIVE! Goodness!
Julia was a great chef and very entertaining here in NZ during the late 70's and early 80's. Loved her accent and her rustic way of pulling a chicken apart. Bravo
Je l'adore !! Elle est géniale !
People don't realize that the fruits and vegetables that we eat today are quite different from older days. Yesterday's tomatoes had seeds that were bitter with tough skins. Carrot skins were bitter and needed to be removed. Today's fruits and vegetables have been modified to eliminate bitterness and toughness. And BTW, that doesn't make them GMO!
Even modern tomato skins will make your tomato sauce very bitter when they cook down. That’s why recipes usually call for canned tomatoes to skip the blanching process.
Yeah now they call what's natural and grown in the earth "organic" and charge you much more,
Delicious and creative. She’s doing her own version of lasagna and stated that it wasn’t Italian and that the French take recipes from different cultures and make it their own.
Indeed they do.
Julia is tripping if she thinks I’m just gonna whip up a whole lasagna for unexpected company 😂
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I'm not much of a cook, but I find her almost mesmerizing to watch.
Love the way she de-seeds tohmahto
Julia got LOTS of hate mail over this, believe it or not. It turns out many were disgusted by her handling of lasagna as a vehicle for leftovers, or were just offended at a French chef doing lasagna at all. They kept a form letter on file to send back, with a statement that this was not intended to be traditional authentic Italian lasagna, that cooking is about trying new ideas and combinations, and including the recipe. They never got a reply to that!
What is interesting is that, as I understand it from speaking to a coworker who is of Italian heritage and lived in Italy for a number of years, there are many variations of lasagna served throughout Italy. In southern Italy, the lasagna is more like Americans think of lasagna. In northern Italy, white sauce and other ingredients are in it. Kind of like how chili is cooked differently in the United States in different parts of the country.
Watching it, I felt the same way. She just slopped everything she could get her hands on (cottage cheese? Ugh). There was no delicacy, no finesse, and yet it was still grossly over complicated (that dance with combined canned and fresh tomatoes was a lot of work and yet a complete waste of energy).
@@nathanjustus6659but never pasta with chicken. (In fact, chicken is rarely cooked in Italy; Italians like eggs too much to kill the egg factory. Meals like chicken parmigiana are American, not Italian.)
@@jpp7783you have the slightest idea what Italian cousine is about. Chicken is eating vin mane different recipes,so is beef,pork, lam , turkey, fish, wild game ,fruits , vegetable, risotto, legumes, and much more that's meets the eye . It's called La Buona cucina gastronomica Italiana regionale.
Wow, the Italian food police have been around that long.
Let us not forget that Julia said, "we have unexpected company today" then proceeded to use whatever was at hand to cook a meal.
The audience when this was first aired is vastly different than today.
Too all the negative commenters, don't nock it until you have tried it.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Nobody EVER has unexpected guests that will have even one course. But I love anything she says no matter what. She's the voice of courage to cook of my childhood!
At the time, I think this did happen most certainly in Europe as not that many people had phones at home yet.
This was and, in some old fashioned environments, still is something that happens. It is pretty usual for older maids and grannies to have some concoction ready to feed unprevented guests.
Yes ,unexpected guest do happen. I had three hour warning time and I like Julia made lasagna. Not her lasagna but a more Italian lasagna.
Perhaps company traveling long distances found a pay phone to alert you they were soon to arrive. Perhaps they didn't find a pay phone. Or husband visited with an old or new friend or client. Invitations were extended as it's considered rude to make them eat alone and spend hard earned money at - gasp- a restaurant. NOT hospitable or nice. That's the way it was in those days. And men didn't cook.
It’s more like a one pot leftovers dish than lasagna but I’ll definitely give it a try. Her nonchalance might help me to rediscover the fun in cooking.
‘This is a peasant dish’ - the ultimate get out of jail for sloppy slicing! 😜
She's scary handling knives. 😨🤡
@@aprilcraddock169 I guess you are not used to seeing skilled cooks with good knife skills.
Julia was " first in her class in onion chopping skills."
As seen in the movie, Julie and Julia.
I've never seen a lasagne heaped up.... I'm soo inspired.
Always a pleasure to watch her work. Surely she knew her comedy.
So fuckin' funny.
I love watching Julia she's one of my favorite chefs ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
Enjoyed Julia learned so much from her
Amazing to see the TV cameras on screen in these episodes. Good thing she doesn't bump into them.
Where????
@@EnterShikari01 Sorry I'd have to look through the episode again. I think it's somewhere in the middle of the show if not towards the end.
Julia is naturally adorable and makes me laugh as much as I find her generous, enthusiastic and full of humor. I discovered her recently in the film Julia & Julie with Meryl Streep. Beautiful person, Julia...
I am French and she reminds me of 2 French women cooks.
Maïté (cook with a show: La cuisine des Mousquetaires) with great moments of laughter, among which, when she does not manage to kill a live eel or when she adds a "small" dose of Calvados (she empties almost half the bottle...).
And to La Mère Léa (mother Léa), a great cook renowned among Les Mères Lyonnaises (mothers of Lyon in France) who did her own shopping. There are one or two videos of her, including one where she meets her friend Paul Bocuse, young but already renowned chef.
That is the cuisine of the Mothers, and Julia pays tribute to them with the same spirit!
It should be noted that Paul Bocuse learned his excellence in cooking from famous Mères Lyonnaises, such as La Mère Eugénie Brazier (the restaurant still exists in Lyon, in the 1st arrondissement, in the Rhône department, like Paul Bocuse's restaurant in Collonge-au-mont-d'Or very close to Lyon, 7 km from the center of Lyon).
The same is true for Georges Blanc who learned his excellence from Mères Elisa and Paulette Blanc, respectively his paternal grandmother and his mother. The restaurant still exists in Vonnas in the Ain department, near Bourg-en-Bresse and less than 70 km from Lyon.
Bon appétit ! 😀😋
Love how she just throws all the unwanted bits into the floor 😂
No she didn’t! There was clearly a garbage can there.
That's her crew down there with a trash can.
@@Isabella-nd3rqit’s called a bin, far easier to say. Why would you call it anything else ? Weird
@@511pearlit’s called a bin mate
@@EnterShikari01We call it a trash can in the U.S.
I just made a tomato sauce for a chicken pizzaiolo. I used a 28 ounce can of peeled plum. I didn't puree them but instead, and admittedly, more effort, I used shears to snip up the tomatoes, making a very textured sauce. A food mill is something that I may incorporate one day.
And what is peeled plum😢
@@antohong Peeled plum tomatoes. 🍅
Something I loved hearing about this show is that when she had food scraps she would scrape it onto the floor, and then later on they would clean it up after the show because there are no breaks in the show they just kept filming, idk how true that is but it sounds about right.
As a kid back, then you could tell whose Mom had watched this show because that was what she made the next day.
What great moms and neighborhoods we had back then! I loved them all, and they all loved us kids.
I miss you Julia, like I miss mama...
So enjoyable. I wish there was someplace to find Dinner at Julia's. I really liked that show.
Contact PBS. They may have trove of JC reruns for sale. Also JC may have a website.
Muy graciosa....cocina humoristica....😮😅...sin temor al ridiculo....gran sentido de la autocritica....totalmente autentica....me encanta !!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is my favorite all time chefs
She just so honest! Instead of glamorous housewives with perfect hairstyles and manicure she get down and dirty and show you how to work a kitchen
She’s an icon!
Every episode is a joy. My sis made lasagne yesterday with all sorts of weird shit in it. It didn’t retain its layers but who cares. It was good.
I love making lasagna. Thanks Julia.
I would never think of lasagna as an impromptu meal when guests show up unannounced.
Well she did say she had several hours warning.
Pre mobile phones and email how wonderful that must have been 😊
I live in an Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. Very few places make Lasagna every day
best i could do is order pizza in a situation like that lol
Today with spaghetti sauce bottled noodles that cook at the same time it's baking, it can be done rather quickly, , but I didn't know really what lasagna was until the later 70s
I love the "chaos is just around the corner" vibe
I feel like my cooking standards are like Mrs Childs, it's not perfect in the process but my kids and hubby love my cooking, it's not a top star chefs way but it gets done and makes my family happy. I had family members who watch me chop onions and tell me, you are doing it wrong. Like who cares, my family are being fed tonight and they dont care
hello , julia was such a treasure💯💯💯💯.........i watched her ever since , i was a young teen . RIP , she is much missed❤❤❤❤❤. great share thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.............
She does an amazing impression of Meryl Streep.
only better 😉
And people say adhd didnt exist before 😂 i LOVE JULIA adhd sister😂 she was just brilliantly classy and fabulous
She is the best. A force of nature.
Authentic Wonderful Chef, loved her so much. Now 2024 I'll be trying this
I have an old American cookbook with a very similar recipe for lasagna Malibran which the author remembered eating in Venice Italy. It comprised cooked chicken, mushrooms, braised sliced celery, ricotta and mozzarella. Finished with Parmesan. It was a very pretty white lasagna.
Legend of a chef.
I honestly do this recipe several times a year. Just Hubby and me so I make several smaller and freeze. I really like this one because there is not as much red sauce as the Italian version. Also, so versatile since you can use left over things, leave out the chicken if you want and use whatever cheeses you want, etc. I make the red sauce all the time for other recipes. The recipe is written in one of her books which I have.
Shes cool, doesn't be anyone but herself. Love it ❤
I'm always amazed how she could do a half-hour show in one take. (Some shows had a two minute separate take at the end in the dining room.)
I really love her knife skills. She's very talented at not cutting her fingers too
Love You Julia ! ! !
I remember watching Julia Child’s show from the beginning😏I also have a signed cookbook from her, She is truly a treasure. I don't remember how many times I've seen this lasagna episode but each time is hilarious.
Oh great...now I want her "lasagne salad" recipe too!😊 I love that gal. ❤❤
Wow all that energy😊love it I adored her as a kid growing up in Detroit
Lol ! Love the "...spaghetti laundry..." ❤❤❤❤❤❤
My grandma Loretta made traditional mozzarella ricotta cheese 🧀 lasagna with me in her kitchen during the late 80’s in her home 🏡 on two acres in Riverside, CA…I love you Grandma Loretta 💕👵🏼 💋♥️👱🏼♀️💕 R.I.P. April 2021
A cultural treasure!
Fingers aren’t part of this recipe 😂 love it
Heavens! I've got so much to do today! 🥰