Julia Child Cooking Lessons on Video

The Way To Cook — Julia Child's invaluable series of cooking lessons designed to bring her right into your own kitchen to teach you the fundamentals of good cooking. This is the six-part series (complete with recipe booklet), originally produced in 1985, where Julia teaches you all the fundamentals of good cooking and offers a wealth of her favorite recipes. From deglazing a sauce and degreasing a stock to thickening a soup and unmolding a timbale, all the important techniques that make for good cooking are here. Now, at the press of a button, you have instant access to whatever recipe or information you need. Watch Julia do it and you’ll be empowered.

• Poultry includes: the perfect chicken sauté with variations, classic coq au vin, ways with chicken breasts, butterflied grilled birds, roast turkey, and a special duck.
• Meat features: Quick and easy sautéed steaks, hamburgers, pork chops, aromatic stews, a crusty hash, grilled pork, and majestic beef and lamb roasts.
• Vegetables: How best to cook twenty of your favorite vegetables, plus gratins, stuffed delights, eggplant pizza, and risotto.
• Soups, Salads, and Bread: The three master soup stocks and improvisations, a French onion soup and a Mediterranean fish soup, tossed and composed salads, plus how to make your own French bread.
• Fish and Eggs: Selecting fish and shellfish; broiling, sautéing, and oven-poaching fish; plus the miraculous egg—alone or in omelettes, custards, quiche, sauces, and a spectacular soufflé.
• First Courses and Desserts: Patés and fish mousse, tart crusts and crepes with savory and with sweet fillings, two master cakes, and a Tipsy Trifle.

The French Chef With Julia Child — Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her passionate and sometimes breathless way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat, and think about food. Entertaining, fun, and real in a way that influenced every television cooking program that followed, The French Chef embraced Julia's passion for food and teaching and reflected her joie de vivre: "If I can do it, you can do it ... and here's how to do it!" Run Time: 432 minutes (18 episodes).

Now chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia's love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most-loved dishes with this special collection of 18 episodes from her original 1960s series, The French Chef. In her signature style and with bloopers intact, Julia demonstrates classic recipes:

• Starters and Side Dishes — 1. The Potato Show, 2. Your own French Onion Soup, 3. Bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise, 4. The spinach Twins, 5. Salad Niçoise, 6. French Fries.
• Main Courses — 1. Boeuf Bourguignon, 2. To Roast a Chicken, 3. The Lobster Show, 4. To Stuff a Sausage, 5. Tripes à la Mode, 6. The Whole Fish Story.
• Baking, Desserts and other Classics — 1. Queen of Sheba Cake, 2. Cheese and Wine Party, 3. Apple Dessert, 4. Mouse au Chocolat, 5. The Good Loaf, 6. The Omelette Show.

The French Chef With Julia Child 2 — A regular program on WGBH Boston from 1963 to 1972, The French Chef is perhaps best known for its down-to-earth hostess Julia Child with her dry wit and practical approach to "fancy" French cooking. Run Time: 432 minutes (18 episodes).

Eighteen classic programs, in black and white and color, feature the ever-practical Julia Child educating viewers in everything from starters and side dishes:

• Starters, Sauces and Sides — 1. Cooking Vegetables, 2. Vegetable Adventures, 3. Elegance with Eggs, 4. More about Potatoes, 5. Terrines and Patés, 6. The Hollandaise Family.
• Main Courses — 1. French Crepes I, 2. Cooking Your Goose, 3. Roast Suckling Pig, 4. Fish in Monk's Clothing, 5. Cheese Soufflé, 6. Sole Bonne Femme.
• Breads and Desserts — 1. French Crepes II, 2. Buche De Noel, 3. Croissants, 4. Gateau in a Cage, 5. French Bread, 6/ VIP Cake: Le Prantome.

Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom — Celebrates Julia Child's remarkable contribution to the American palate and lifestyle. On one level it is a heartfelt tribute to Julia's culinary wit and wisdom; on another, it is a composite of her favorite recipes and techniques as demonstrated by Julia on-air from 1963 to 1999. The show features an introduction by Julia herself and personal anecdotes and commentary from her renowned colleagues and fans: Jacques Pepin, Charlie Gibson, Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, Jasper White, Alice Waters, and Thomas Keller. Classic television clips from the most memorable of Julia's cooking demonstrations, including the long missing first episode of The French Chef, show the best of Julia's 40 years of public television cooking. Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom, featuring public television's most enduring personality, will evoke humorous memories and provide spirited entertainment for her generations of viewers. Run Time: 86 minutes. A great companion to the book, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.

Julia & Jacque Cooking at Home — Julia Child and Jacques Pepin join together with fire, fun and culinary genius in what has become another classic hit for public television. Viewers are charmed by the special magic America's favorite cooking duo conjures up in Julia's legendary kitchen and enticed by the mouth-watering great food they prepare and enjoy. Julia's and Jacques' warmth and conviviality shine through the programs along with their spirit, whimsy and remarkable skills, as they offer techniques, tastes and recipes at the heart of today's cooking. From Hamburgers and Halibut to Chicken Pot Pie and Artichokes, they reach the hearts of the audience who loves them for their easy camaraderie, step-by-step instructions and great talent. The complete Emmy Award-winning series. 10 hours, 22 Episodes and over 85 recipes. Run Time: 440 minutes. A great companion to the book, Julia & Jacque Cooking at Home.