I always enjoy my Saturday mornings with PBS. I just saw my first Julia
Child show from when she started out. It was fricking hillarious. The
format was such that it was a small box centered on my tv screen, in
black and white. She was making french onion soup. Dropping things,
knocking over the open bottle of brandy, saying things like "Oh well"
and then the part at the end where she gives "hostess" advice and they
show her "buffet" on a card table. Very campy. (And her french onion
soup looked horrible.)

Then I also saw one of her last shows where she brings in a guest
chef-he was from someplace called Lulu's in SF. He fried baby artichoke
hearts-looked delicious. He also breaded lemon slices and fried-that
would be interesting to eat. I wouldn't mind eating at that restaurant
if it still exists. He used her mortar and pestle and she said she
bought it in France in 1948 before he was born. Great stuff.

I watched Lydia Bastianich make chicken parmagiana which I have never
liked but hers looked pretty good. I especially enjoyed her lesson on
stuffing a chicken breast fillet. The breast fillet was about 3 times
the size of the average chicken breast sold in the grocery store.

I had to leave before I could watch Martha teach how to cook rice in 5
ways.