Dave Smith wrote:

> 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.

You just really have to hear it in that Julia Child voice.

BTW, for people in St. Louis County, MO, you can check out the first
set of DVDs from the library.


> 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.

Well, my Mom used to deep-fry when I was a kid, and there were eight of
us who were born in the span of 11 years.



Brian

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