I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how she hated
cooking. She sucked at it, to be honest. She'd be the first to admit. But
she so wanted to impress her husband. And boy, did she wind up impressing!

So what if it falls on the floor? Pick it up. No one will know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk

Thomas Jefferson's ice cream! Oh the joys of butter and cream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBy-Mx1GLM

Jill

On Tue 06 May 2008 02:39:41p, jmcquown told us...

> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how she
> hated cooking. She sucked at it, to be honest. She'd be the first to
> admit. But she so wanted to impress her husband. And boy, did she wind
> up impressing!
>
> So what if it falls on the floor? Pick it up. No one will know.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk

I have to admit it, but I remember seeing this original broadcast back in
the 1960s. I've always been a Julia junkie!

> Thomas Jefferson's ice cream! Oh the joys of butter and cream.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBy-Mx1GLM
>
> Jill
>
>
>



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Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 06 May 2008 02:39:41p, jmcquown told us...
>
>> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how
>> she hated cooking. She sucked at it, to be honest. She'd be the
>> first to admit. But she so wanted to impress her husband. And boy,
>> did she wind up impressing!
>>
>> So what if it falls on the floor? Pick it up. No one will know.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk
>
> I have to admit it, but I remember seeing this original broadcast
> back in the 1960s. I've always been a Julia junkie!
>
The funny thing is, you can tell she isn't sure what the hell she's talking
about once she's in front of television cameras. I mean, she knows that's a
roaster but she has to fill up air time and suddenly she's not sure? So
she's going on and on about the various chickens. I love it! But I really
loved the shot where she dropped the chicken on the floor (I haven't found
that one, yet, but PBS did last month) and said, "Oh, no one will know!"
LOL

Jill

Does anyone recall Dan Ackroyd's parody of Julia from SNL? It was one
of the funniest skits I have ever seen on TV and I still LOL when
thinking of it which is every time someone mentions Julia.
Best wishes,
Ellie (who is enjoying another beautiful day in SF)

wrote:
> Does anyone recall Dan Ackroyd's parody of Julia from SNL? It was
> one of the funniest skits I have ever seen on TV and I still LOL when
> thinking of it which is every time someone mentions Julia.
> Best wishes,
> Ellie (who is enjoying another beautiful day in SF)

That was funny, Ellie! "Oh my, I seem to have cut myself!" Was around
1977, I think.

Jill

On 2008-05-07, jmcquown > wrote:
> wrote:
>> Does anyone recall Dan Ackroyd's parody of Julia from SNL? It was
>> one of the funniest skits I have ever seen......

....and one of the last funny one's seen on SNL in 30 yrs!

notamused

> wrote in message
...
>
> Does anyone recall Dan Ackroyd's parody of Julia from SNL? It was one
> of the funniest skits I have ever seen on TV and I still LOL when
> thinking of it which is every time someone mentions Julia.
> Best wishes,
> Ellie (who is enjoying another beautiful day in SF)
>


It is a classic. When Julia was doing GMA, they did a birthday celebration
for her and she caught wind of it. All she wanted, she told them was to
meet Dan Ackroyd. Seems she loved his parody and wanted to tell him
personally. If I remember the write up on it later, he said he was
petrified of meeting her thinking he had offended her.

Read her biography. Did you know that she never even attempted to cook
until she was 37 years old? She had been raised with 'kitchen help' and
only when she got married did she try to learn to cook so her once widowed
husband would not be tempted to stray.
-ginny

Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> Read her biography. Did you know that she never even attempted to cook
> until she was 37 years old? She had been raised with 'kitchen help' and
> only when she got married did she try to learn to cook so her once widowed
> husband would not be tempted to stray.
> -ginny
>
Yes, that was everything I'd ever read too. She didn't "dislike"
cooking.. she just never had a need or reason to do it.

On Tue 06 May 2008 06:11:29p, jmcquown told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Tue 06 May 2008 02:39:41p, jmcquown told us...
>>
>>> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how
>>> she hated cooking. She sucked at it, to be honest. She'd be the
>>> first to admit. But she so wanted to impress her husband. And boy,
>>> did she wind up impressing!
>>>
>>> So what if it falls on the floor? Pick it up. No one will know.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk
>>
>> I have to admit it, but I remember seeing this original broadcast
>> back in the 1960s. I've always been a Julia junkie!
>>
> The funny thing is, you can tell she isn't sure what the hell she's
> talking about once she's in front of television cameras. I mean, she
> knows that's a roaster but she has to fill up air time and suddenly
> she's not sure? So she's going on and on about the various chickens. I
> love it! But I really loved the shot where she dropped the chicken on
> the floor (I haven't found that one, yet, but PBS did last month) and
> said, "Oh, no one will know!" LOL
>
> Jill
>
>
>

Yes, I saw that one, too, on the original broadcast. I never missed an
episode, as it came on the Cleveland PBS station shortly after I got home
from work.

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jmcquown wrote:
> But I really
> loved the shot where she dropped the chicken on the floor (I haven't found
> that one, yet, but PBS did last month) and said, "Oh, no one will know!"
> LOL

No pun intended, but that old canard has been around for years. And
although no recording of it exists and Child and her publicity people
claimed that THAT particular event NEVER happened, people still swear on
their mothers and children that they saw it with their own eyes.

Think back carefully to the show you saw on PBS. Did you really see her
drop a chicken on the floor?

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/julia.asp

The "Oh, no one will know" concept comes from one of Child's very first
programs. While flipping a pan of food, having first provided a caveat
to viewers that success at the task could not be guaranteed, half of the
pan's contents landed on the stove top. Picking the food up and piecing
it back together, Child intoned that it's all right, cooing that the
cook is alone in the kitchen, so "Who's to know?"

Pennyaline wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> But I really
>> loved the shot where she dropped the chicken on the floor (I haven't
>> found that one, yet, but PBS did last month) and said, "Oh, no one
>> will know!" LOL
>
> No pun intended, but that old canard has been around for years. And
> although no recording of it exists and Child and her publicity people
> claimed that THAT particular event NEVER happened, people still swear
> on their mothers and children that they saw it with their own eyes.
>
> Think back carefully to the show you saw on PBS. Did you really see
> her drop a chicken on the floor?
>
> http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/julia.asp
>
> The "Oh, no one will know" concept comes from one of Child's very
> first programs. While flipping a pan of food, having first provided a
> caveat to viewers that success at the task could not be guaranteed,
> half of the pan's contents landed on the stove top. Picking the food
> up and piecing it back together, Child intoned that it's all right,
> cooing that the cook is alone in the kitchen, so "Who's to know?"

It DID actually happen. I saw it on PBS a month or so ago. It's just not
commonly seen footage. I saw it. Snopes be damned. They don't just offer
it up for youtube and the like.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
>
> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how she hated
> cooking. She sucked at it, to be honest. She'd be the first to admit. But
> she so wanted to impress her husband. And boy, did she wind up impressing!
>
> So what if it falls on the floor? Pick it up. No one will know.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk
>
> Thomas Jefferson's ice cream! Oh the joys of butter and cream.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBy-Mx1GLM
>
> Jill

Her whole bio is pretty amazing actually.

Pete C. wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how
>> she hated cooking. She sucked at it, to be honest. She'd be the
>> first to admit. But she so wanted to impress her husband. And boy,
>> did she wind up impressing!
>>
>> So what if it falls on the floor? Pick it up. No one will know.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk
>>
>> Thomas Jefferson's ice cream! Oh the joys of butter and cream.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBy-Mx1GLM
>>
>> Jill
>
> Her whole bio is pretty amazing actually.

Yes, it is. She really didn't like to cook when she started out as a
newlywed in her 40s. LOL Then she tried to cook for her husband Paul and
discovered cookbooks weren't "friendly". They said what we all know what to
do. Whisk 2 eggs then whisk into the mixture with milk to make a batter.
She didn't undertand... whisk and then, what? What exactly are we doing
here?

She was the first to give step by step ingredients. Do this, then do that.
I've said before my grandmothers recipes don't make much sense. Julia was a
"newbie" cook, so she wrote about how to do it. Step by step.

I loved her shows later in life with Jacques Pepin. Gave her time to make
fun of herself and to have fun cooking with another good chef. She never
called herself a chef. Bon Appetit

Jill

On Wed, 7 May 2008 05:01:23 -0500, "jmcquown" >
wrote:


>She was the first to give step by step ingredients. Do this, then do that.
>I've said before my grandmothers recipes don't make much sense. Julia was a
>"newbie" cook, so she wrote about how to do it. Step by step.
>
>I loved her shows later in life with Jacques Pepin. Gave her time to make
>fun of herself and to have fun cooking with another good chef. She never
>called herself a chef. Bon Appetit
>
>Jill
>

I am thinking...(oh no, it's dangerous!!)...that maybe for our next
cookalong, we could do a Julia Child thang? Make one of her recipes?
Maybe one we have never tried..

Whaddaya think?

Christine

Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 05:01:23 -0500, "jmcquown" >
> wrote:
>
>
>> She was the first to give step by step ingredients. Do this, then do that.
>> I've said before my grandmothers recipes don't make much sense. Julia was a
>> "newbie" cook, so she wrote about how to do it. Step by step.
>>
>> I loved her shows later in life with Jacques Pepin. Gave her time to make
>> fun of herself and to have fun cooking with another good chef. She never
>> called herself a chef. Bon Appetit
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
> I am thinking...(oh no, it's dangerous!!)...that maybe for our next
> cookalong, we could do a Julia Child thang? Make one of her recipes?
> Maybe one we have never tried..
>
> Whaddaya think?

In the Julia tradition, you must include an omelet and bouef Bourguignon.

Pennyaline > wrote in news:4821c9e0$0$33222
:

> and bouef Bourguignon.
>

With or without the bacon?

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A man in line at the bank kept falling over...when he got to a teller he
asked for his balance.

Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 05:01:23 -0500, "jmcquown" >
> wrote:
>
>
>> She was the first to give step by step ingredients. Do this, then
>> do that. I've said before my grandmothers recipes don't make much
>> sense. Julia was a "newbie" cook, so she wrote about how to do it.
>> Step by step.
>>
>> I loved her shows later in life with Jacques Pepin. Gave her time
>> to make fun of herself and to have fun cooking with another good
>> chef. She never called herself a chef. Bon Appetit
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
> I am thinking...(oh no, it's dangerous!!)...that maybe for our next
> cookalong, we could do a Julia Child thang? Make one of her recipes?
> Maybe one we have never tried..
>
> Whaddaya think?
>
> Christine

Sounds good! But I wish I knew where I'd be at what point. Hard to plan.
And Mom might not understand why I'm making all that chicken stock.... LOL

Jill

"jmcquown" > wrote in
:

> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how she
> hated cooking. She sucked at it, to be honest. She'd be the first to
> admit. But she so wanted to impress her husband. And boy, did she
> wind up impressing!
>
> So what if it falls on the floor? Pick it up. No one will know.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk
>
> Thomas Jefferson's ice cream! Oh the joys of butter and cream.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBy-Mx1GLM
>
> Jill
>
>
>



I'm not going to click on any link *you* post!!

If there's a recipe in there, post it in full.


(Sound familiar?)


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

You will travel through the valley of rejection;
you will reside in the land of morning mists...and you will find your
home,
though it will not be where you left it.

PeterLucas wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote in
> :
>
>> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how
>
> I'm not going to click on any link *you* post!!
>
OH **** you, Peter. You're getting very tiresome. Whiny bratty 12 year old
child tiresome.

"jmcquown" > wrote in
:

> PeterLucas wrote:
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> I saw a special while I was at Mom's all about Julia Child and how
>>
>> I'm not going to click on any link *you* post!!
>>
> OH **** you, Peter.



I bet you wish you could!!



> You're getting very tiresome. Whiny bratty 12
> year old child tiresome.
>
>
>


You sit there mouthing off and demanding that people do your bidding
(ie, post recipes rather than websites) because *you* don't want to
click on any links and then you do exactly the opposite and post
websites and want people to open them!!


Tiresome?? Maybe to some hypocritical old lush who doesn't like getting
her own medicine back.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

You will travel through the valley of rejection;
you will reside in the land of morning mists...and you will find your
home,
though it will not be where you left it.