I loved Julia Child. I watched every show that I possible could, and own
most of the books she wrote or co-wrote. I was attracted not only to her
knowledge and talent, but also to the aplomb with which she approached
every topic and recipe. Her good nature, sense of humor, and ability to
laugh at herself made her all the more appealing and approachable. For
all of that I owe most of my cooking skills and approach to food to
Julia. Her exhaustively tested recipes and ability to teach technique,
either personally on television or in written word are unequaled by
anyone else in the field.

Having said all that, I still maintain that on a very early episode, a
fowl slipped to the floor, and I dispute the word of the "experts" who
swear it didn't happen. IIRC, and I'm sure that many will say I don't,
the episode in question was not involved in cooking the fowl that
dropped, but one in which she was giving a detailed description of a
range of fowl from turkey to goose to duck to capon to chicken to Cornish
hen. All were lined up on the bench and one slipped, either the duck or
chicken.

In later years I videotaped most of her shows and still have them. It's
too bad that home video recorders didn't exist earlier. I'm sure I would
have had it on tape. BTW, it was a B&W episode.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.