Default User wrote:

>
> I was watching the Julia Child DVDs, one show was on "french fries". In
> the requisite lecture on safety, Julia told us that when deep frying
> not to have children or "a bunch of kooks and weirdos" running around
> the kitchen while doing it.
>

I would think that should be a good rule to follow when doing most
cooking. I don't like people around when I am working with hot things. I
hat it when I take a pot off the stove to pour off the water in the sink
and someone is suddenly right behind me.

I recall many years ago watching an episode of Celebrity Cooks when
Margaret Trudeau was the guest. She was never very popular with the general
public, but I thought I would watch the show and see what she was like.
She did a dish that she said she liked to do when Pierre was away because
the boys, ages3-8 <?> at the time, could be very much involved in the
process. She did tempura. The idea of having three young boys together
with a pan full of hot oil over an open flame ....................... she
convinced me that she really is as culls as people claimed.