I watch youtube Homemade with Lau and Spice n Pans. There’s some cantonese guy that I subscribe to too that was mentioned here but its all in cantonese.
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Very well produced with excellent narrative. Great show
HBO’s Julia, well, if you want to make a show about someone sort similar to Julia Child, but with a different character and lots of made-up bullshit rather than the abundantly documented history of her and many of her collaborators and friends, give the characters different names. She didn’t pay for the pilot. She didn’t have to overcome resistance from WGBH producers. She wasn’t thrown off by glitches during taping of the pilots.
https://www.wgbh.org/foundation/in-the-kitchen-with-russ-morash-gbhs-discovery-of-julia-child
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Accurate or not, Julia is entertaining. Similar to “Winning” also on HBO max which is apparently very far from accurate but still pretty fun if you like the Lakers.
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I can’t be entertained when being fed trite, lazy bullshit as if it were history. The first two episodes were offensively demeaning of at least two great real women. Can’t watch any more of that bunk.
Fair enough if you don’t care for it but not watching a tv show because it’s not entirely historically accurate seems a bit over the top. But I guess I get that way about other things.
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My problem is that it’s not Julia Child. She was a badass motherfucking genius, not a weepy self-doubting wimp.
So don’t watch it or even read about. Sheesh.
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I wish someone had warned me about what an insulting piece of schlock it is. It looks so good and it’s so well-cast that I didn’t catch on until partway through episode two.
I enjoyed the movie Julie and Julia . With Amy Adams , Stanley Tucci, and and others . I probably won’t watch this new film . But if it’s available for free . I might . For my viewing of Julia. I turn to you tube for Jaques and Julia cooking together. Or her show The French chef with Julia Child and others on pbs . I have watched them over and over.
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Have you seen ‘her kitchen’ at the Smithsonian. That was really fun.
Did the Julia Child exhibit at the Smithsonian several times, and each time I was amazed at the cross-section of ages among the visitors. Young and old came to pay culinary homage…
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Now that’s interesting. I assumed it was a permanent exhibit. If not I’m super glad I got to see it. Put a smile on my face.
The half about Julia Child was great. The other half, well, considering it was based on a blog, it could have been worse.
Some really interesting lesser-known stuff about the Childs and other mid-century foodies in this book:
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Tucci’s tempting and beautiful romp thru Piedmont region. Truffles and more…
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I meant to put oil in there, but I put vermouth instead, but that doesn’t make any difference.
—Julia Child, The French Chef, season 1, episode 2, “French Onion Soup”
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I did not know you could farm black truffles. But that’s what they have been doing in the Umbria region of Italy for generations, as depicted by in the latest segment of Tucci’s ‘Searching for Italy’.
Some years ago when we lived in SW Oregon there was a vendor at our weekly farmers market who ‘grew’ them.
No one has yet figured out how to farm truffles successfully.
You must be talking about white truflles but even then…