julia exceeded everyone s expectations. and her ability to continue in television long past the time when most people would have hung up their spatulas and gone on to their reward. how much longer are we going to see you doing television? well, until i drop, i believe. we re going to start out with a bold, stuff roasted turkey. but here you are julia redefined age by example. when she was 87, she launched a 22-part series. happy cooking. bon appétit. in classic julia fashion, she had a detente with pbs and she did a few series with them. this is a really good dessert. she was 91 when we were
i learned how to cook at my age and you can learn to cook at your age as well. cooking is a lot of one failure after another. and that s how you finally learn. now, fabric. just like that. it s very nice to know that you can make all these goodies yourself. she opened doors for me as a person that i could cook. we re making the stew of stews. we would watch julia s show with my grand mother. and then grandpa would go buy the ingredients and we would cook that meal. she just seemed so unpretentious that you thought if she could do it, you could do it. we all grabbed onto julia and we began cooking her things. she was giving opportunity to
color rather than the dark one. so, we re going to use this in the stuffing, so we just chop it up. then we re going to saute it in butter. the first shows were live on tape, which gave it a kind of breathless quality, which was rather nice. this should saute for just about a minute or two. but whatever happened happened. when you re ready to cook them i m sticking on the beans. she had to devise an outline of points she wanted to cover, but she didn t memorize everything. she prepared her work meticulously. she would type these things out single space, two or three pages of what happens after this and after that. mix them all up. they would do this to the chicken and they would do that to the chicken. there. i mean, she knew what she was going to do, and i was really just the traffic cop. turn the blender on. julia was a master at getting
julia that you saw. she had a lot of her father in her. she could be a very tough negotiator. and eventually simca agreed. at one point, a magazine sent reporters to take pictures. simca was not included in that session. i know that she was really hurt. the relationship became frosty because it was hierarchical. it was julia childs and simca. julia was the star. the station executives were determined that we continue these cooking programs. we re having a cheese and
i m done. and she quit. she could have quietly gone into retirement, but she didn t want to do that. she would say, if they don t see you on television, they think you re dead. julia was a dynamic force that would not be silenced, would not lay about waiting for her next great television show. so, she went to work for good morning america. that s tomorrow on good morning america. on gma, she had to do an entire dish in three minutes. but she learned to adapt, and it provided her a much larger audience. when i first met her, i was intimidated. i was meeting an icon. how am i going to approach her? i didn t have to. knock, knock, knock on the door, and in she bursts. darling, deary, we re going to have so much fun. you don t put your hands on