FWIW, this Thursday (10/8/09) the PBS Create channel will be showing the Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home episode featuring Beef Bourguignon. The channel runs 6hr blocks of programming, so the program will be on 4 times. Website...

Notable quotes from this week.

Julia is making the comeback... her series is currently airing on public television’s CREATE TV with BAKING WITH JULIA. And in September they’ll be airing JULIA AND JACQUES COOKING AT HOME....

The greeting at the front door part makes me think it might have been "Julia and Company". My recollection is that each week was a specific “company meal”. I remember one of bringing the boss home for dinner.

Wonderful. Thank you for the site. I’m going to start by making brioche and then move on to some of the others. Younger folks have no way of knowing how barren the home cooking scene was when Julia's Mastering the Art...was...

pieces of chanterelles. A slightly sweet and glossy burgundy-colored Madeira reduction sauce filled the moat outside the potato ring. The scallops were barely cooked through, exactly as I prefer, and even though they were not...

Of course, you’re right: it’s nothing like a muffaleta. There IS nothing like a muffaleta. Be that as it may, I’ve got the book open in front of me right now (Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home). Julia's notes on...

friends who share your interest in food. It’s great that classes are available now. It wasn’t so easy decades ago when so many of us had to use Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking as a home study...

especially when one takes a long, hard look at Food Network sponsors. The influence of Julia Child on today’s home cooking is discussed in detail and Pollen relates several examples of how it affected him personally. Michael...

I wonder how many buyers will actually make the recipes......on the Charlie Rose interview, Ms. Ephron and Ms. Streep were both of the opinion that when an average home cook says s/he has a favorite cookbook, it usually means...

Today is Julia's birthday and I would like to honour her with a great meal but I’m afraid it’s too damn hot and humid for that. Sorry Julia, wherever you are. Just some home-pasta and some marinara I’ve had in...

, cooking smells are his new cologne. Maybe not the best choice for tonight, if you plan to sit inside. Link: http://www.chezmamansf.com/ Image: http://www.chezmamansf.com/images/panels/home.jpg

night for the same reason, should be a reason to keep in touch with each other about our successes/failures and just fun home cooking! I’ll look forward to reading the posts.

thanks for the suggestions. i actually got inspired by julia once again and decided to cook at home after the movie. good times.

the lobsters at home, I would have parboiled them, and followed the recipe. But since I had bought cooked lobster meat, I took out the lobster after sauteeing with the butter and shallots, so it wouldn’t overcook and get...