The Mushroom Show | The French Chef Season 3 | Julia Child

Julia Child shows you how to wash, trim, slice, chop, flute, stew, and saute mushrooms and how to serve them under glass.
About the French Chef:
Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series from the 1960s, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her signature passionate way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat and think about food.
About Julia Child on PBS:
Spark some culinary inspiration by revisiting Julia Child’s groundbreaking cooking series, including The French Chef, Baking with Julia, Julia Child: Cooking with Master Chefs and much more. These episodes are filled with classic French dishes, curious retro recipes, talented guest chefs, bloopers, and Julia’s signature wit and kitchen wisdom. Discover for yourself how this beloved cultural icon introduced Americans to French cuisine, and how her light-hearted approach to cooking forever changed how we prepare, eat and think about food. Bon appétit!
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[@freezypeeps8311]

I don’t know about you… but I always “put on the dog” when my maids and butlers have gone and taken the day off! Lol! 🤣

[@ZoeLateNight]

“…you have your impeccably clean towel…” 😂

[@MW-rq5uc]

I estimate Julia uses about 40 pots and pans on each show! Her comment “YOU could cut off your hand, and that would be too bad because then you could not chop mushrooms anymore” as if she just thought about that....hmmmmm! I adore 😊 her.

[@carolynridlon3988]

Just a side note, her husband was the dishwasher during those early days of filming at the studio!

[@skinnysnorlax1876]

8:12 Julia: "This also makes a very handsome mushroom" Mushroom: *blushes*

[@lees5073]

I grew up watching this episode in Chester County, mushroom capital of the world. I still own a large wooden basket of this kind with wire handles which held the flat wooden lid firmly in place. The baskets when picked up at the grower were lined with unglazed blue paper. Never plastic or Styrofoam packaging. Today I store my mushrooms unwashed in a large paper sandwich or bakery bag immediately upon returning from the grocery store. They will breathe happily for several days in the vegatable drawer with no damage.

[@laureldevine]

Wow, I remember watching this exact episode as a kid. I asked my mother watch it and make the sautéed mushrooms for dinner, lol!

[@jonathangreene4223]

Washing mushrooms in the washing machine. Lol. I love her sense of humor

[@Bee-ih5uy]

10:50 lol - "...you just might cut off your hand which would be too bad and you wouldn't be able to chop mushrooms anymore." I love her, and always have since I was a kid watching this on PBS as a kid.

[@asintonic]

I absolutely love mushrooms any sytle any way. I used to watch Julia with my grandmother and a young boy of 5 in the early 70s and continued till the very end.

[@colintaylorful]

Drinking game to the words: THE MUSHROOM! Please don’t die!!😂

[@DavidHall-ge6nn]

My maids and butlers are figments of my imagination, unfortunately. Another wonderful episode! Thank you!

[@teresaroubal7237]

She's the reason I love to cook, well between her and the Frugal Gourmet

[@geomondiale1768]

Julia, and Jaques Pepin

[@teresaroubal7237]

@@geomondiale1768 I do love Jaques Pepin as well, but as a child I remember Julia and Frugal Gourmet. I want to say I was about 16 when I heard of Jaques, which I now have his books and watch him on PBS aka Create TV

[@carolynridlon3988]

I remember Julia & the galloping gourmet (graham Kerr) as a child of the 60's. They and others over the years (especially the early years of food network) have taught me a lot about food & cooking. Which I love to eat & cook! 🥰🤩

[@madnessintomagic]

My favorite as a kid - also Yan (Can Cook) and Justin (? Wilson). Wonderful to watch as a kid.

[@theodore6548]

Jeff Smith was a pedophile.

[@roslynclifford5983]

I appreciate all of the hints and tips Julia Child offers in each of these shows.

[@mikezylstra7514]

Mouth watering. I have to prepare twice as much mushrooms as needed because so many get popped in my mouth raw before they ever get to the stove.

[@Leguminator]

I just got back from the market, now I want to run back out and buy mushrooms.

[@dzintrarowe4272]

Great! Love mushrooms and especially wild mushrooms my mother and I picked in woods of CT

[@jessrow1275]

She did grow up wealthy, and almost certainly did have maids as a child, but her remarks here are obviously tongue in cheek. The French Chef was aimed at postwar middle-class women who cooked for their families without help.

[@anthrax2525]

Always have an Impeccably Clean Towel on hand

[@drunkmike6364]

Absolutely fantastic! This was a wonderful episode highlighting those delicious mushrooms.

[@shanecorning5222]

Yes Saute in butter! Yes. ..... and when you WILD HARVEST like I do because I check my wild mushrooms with FIVE WAYS? Yes. SAUTE them and then DISCARD the liquid it could easily be toxic. We also pad them off with paper towel after cooking.

[@brockreynolds870]

And she's right... WASH the mushrooms.

[@adam_meek]

#govegan

[@janycemackenzie2160]

Keep them in a paper bag. If they shrivel they can can be soaked and reconstituted.

[@jf9488]

I wonder why they moved her to the other side of the counter to film the show?

[@shanecorning5222]

No. The difference is, Julia, and I wish I could have explained this TO HER yeah. The difference is the one you CLAIM is best, is a YOUNG Mushroom. So you prefer baby mushrooms yes. As they mature you can see the gills yes. ~ Cheers , ~ a Mycologist

[@shanecorning5222]

No do NOT put your mushrooms in the machines. SPORES everywhere inside it and you CANNOT see them. ... . You SOAK them move them like you show with the greens THEN let them soak so the BUGS crawl out. BUT I WILD HARVEST. And only when I can Five Point ID them! Or / if I know the PATCH from last year.

[@jody024]

She was wrong about the Europe leaves them dirty because they think it keeps them fresher thing. Less handling is done to minimize damage.

[@shannonrobinson262]

Grit, Julia? I don’t think that pronunciation is quite right….sh…not gr

[@paulj.thaddaios]

She grew up with major wealth and assumes everyone has butlers and maids lol

[@lynn1505]

Where did you get that idea?

[@Mentallyunstableflop]

Why the hell are you here to drag Julia Child? You wish you had an inch of her talent and personality

[@TamaraJohnBlue]

She was kidding, geez you must be really fun at a dinner party. 😏

[@mikezylstra7514]

She grew up in Beverly Hills.

[@patriciafry8634]

@@mikezylstra7514So what?! She knew people generally didn’t have them-if was her sense of humor!!