On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:35:37 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Tue 17 Jul 2018 01:49:28p, told us...
>
>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:07:05 +1000, Druce >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:01:51 -0300, wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:41:21 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:39:29 -0400, jmcquown
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On 7/17/2018 1:48 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> that's a great story! I didn't know
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>I didn't know, either! I was so surprised to watch PBS.
>>>>>>Really? Jaques Pepin was a cook at Hojo's for a decade? Wow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can find clips about him talking about his fried clam
>>>>>>strips. Fun stuff, yeah, he cooked cheap fried food at Howard
>>>>>>Johnson's. Fun!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jill
>>>>>
>>>>>He still cooks regular people food on his show.
>>>>
>>>>He always used to credit his rise to fame to Julia.
>>>
>>>He must have liked her for the fact that she went for the real
>>>France. She wasn't just flirting with a bit of fashionable
>>>Frenchiness. She was genuine.
>>
>> She did a series with him and his reputation was made, not that he
>> cooked by the same methods as she did, quite amusing at times.
>>
>
>I suppose I'm prejudiced, but I watched every episode of every series
>that Julie did, except those wehre there were other cooks/chefs
>inolved. I also have every cookobok that she ever had published.
>While French is not my favorite cuisine, she wsa a great teacher of
>technique and an inspiration to those learning the proper way tp
>cook.
>
>There have been some very good cooks on television and some are very
>educatinal, but some are haphazard and seem more like actors and
>prsenters than real cooks.

She was really the first in NA to start doing that programme on PBS
and even getting people interested in cooking. Before that there were
the ghastly jello salads etc. --puke