French Chef – Taking the Heat!

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1386

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Guest: Avram Samuels Executive Chef – Director of Culinary and Food & Beverage Chaminade Resort and Spa, Santa Cruz, CA

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – French Chef & Taking the Heat

Born into a well-to-do family, Julia Child was imbued with the spirit of adventure and exploration.  While working with the Office of Strategic Services – The OSS – in World War II, she discovered French cooking.  It was, she later said, that first bite of French bread that captured her and never let her go.

Later, with a co-authored book on French cuisine in hand, she was invited by a Boston-area PBS station to demonstrate how the French prepare an omelet.  The audience was enthralled, and PBS secured her hosting services as “The French Chef” for the next decade.

What Child brought to American television was a taste for culinary adventure via French cuisine.  Americans loved the adventure and taste. Today, Julia Child’s “The French Chef” lives on in YouTube videos, and though she passed in 2004, she still leads many into the world of French cuisine. Her efforts lead us to ask:

What makes French cuisine so French?

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