A few years later, I decided to try cooking through her TV series, "The French Chef." While her recipes didn't seem necessarily difficult, they were all rather time-consuming. I started saving them for weekend entertaining, when I would have the luxury of a few hours to cook a meal. While I didn't cook through every episode (sadly, Amazon gradually removed the Prime Instant Video of "The French Chef," first seasons 2-10, and ultimately all of the seasons), I did find a few "go-to" recipes that I knew were fool-proof and would always turn out tasty.
"Casserole Roast Chicken"

Most recently, I was listening to a podcast of The Splendid Table's 20th anniversary show where Lynne Rossetto Kasper replays an interview of Julia Child from their first episode. The topic is summer barbecue meals, and Julia shares her recipe for Potato Salad along with a tip about most importantly making sure the potatoes are cooked correctly. She also expresses her preference for Ground Chuck as her hamburger meat of choice and exclaims that she "Hates fake food- you can't have any fun with that!" Lynn and Julia then have a brief conversation on the importance of moderation and their dislike of low-fat and fat-free products. Julia proclaims
that, "People are nutty who want to watch their fat or give it up entirely. You can't have any fun eating that kind of a diet- all you can eat is vegetables and legumes and to hell with that is what I say!"
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