ImStillMags > wrote:
> On Nov 11, 11:20 am, (z z) wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The local Seattle PBS station KCTS produces cooking shows a couple of
> times a year. KCTS Chefs and KCTS Cooks. The Chef show is
> local and regional Chefs who demonstrate tasty stuff and the show is 3
> hours long. The KCTS Cooks show is also three hours and it is
> home cooks from all over the area who cook their 'special' dishes.
> Both series are really good. They put all the recipes in a book and
> use the books as part of their fundraising......ie .become a member at
> $100 level and get the cookbook......

I got my BBQ sauce recipe in my local tv bbq cookbook. I don't have the
book though. It's a neat station though, where mr Rodgers worked. The first
educational station, but they changed the name to public broadcasting,
which is not the same thing.

Greg