One thing that has always struck me about Mrs Child is, despite having such a presence, such a big personality (and frame, at 6'2 iirc) she has a wonderful way of making room for others. Here you can see the rather quiet chef Alice take center stage, and Julia merely makes observations or asks questions. She was patient and humble despite her experience and celebrity status. The contrast between the very quiet conversations between the two and her more vigorous monogues are quite charming.

These two have got to be the sweetest and gentlest pair of ladies cooking I've seen all my life.

Patience and simplicity the key to a memorable prepared meal. Bravo Chef Julia & Chef Alice.

Wonderful dishes and perfectly timed. I will have to try that fork method with my garlic cloves, very clever. Thank you for continuing to share Ms. Julia with us.

It’s amazing to see Alice’s vegetable preparations and to understand she pioneered so many ideas about how to bring the best flavors out of them through careful handling and treatment. The dishes she made here some 3 decades ago would still feel very current on today’s table. It’s so interesting to learn that before Alice revolutionized cooking and preparing vegetables, of combining them in so many tasty combinations, it was quite a different vision of how vegetables were done in the days of The French Chef a couple decades earlier. We owe a lot to Alice. I’ve always felt she inspired the special cuisine of California wine country which spread across the states and much of the culinary world.

Wow, Alice Waters is the best! I bet she has alot to do with restaurants having kitchen gardens even now. Fantastic Chef

This is great Chef Alice and Julia is so charming to be there the recipes are wow!

I made the fennel salad . It was wonderful , something different and easy.

@erinapricot

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What type of mushrooms did you use?

Can see how Julia likes Alice, Alice is a sweet good person, like calls to like.

This is marvelous, never saw this series. Hope you're a Le to add more, thank you for introducing me to a new Julia series!

This is beautiful cooking❤

FINALLY❤

I like

Great series!

No walnuts for me, thankyou very much.

Are the walnuts toasted?

may i know when was this episode filmed?

@jody024

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1994

You know when you are a world renowned chef go "geez!" when you squeeze a lemon... Julia was a force of nature. There wasn't a particle of juice left after two squeezes!!! Jesus Christ indeed - she would have to make room on her station before squeezing it! Dear Lord.

the generational dynamic is wonderful. But for Julia Alice may not have had this career. And Julia is stepping back to allow Alice be the chef that she is.

I met Alice Waters when I lived in Berkeley. She's arrogant and entitled. She's one of those folks who think they are in a different category than the rest of us and that everyone needs to cater to her needs. Wealthy liberals, who romanticize labor but have never even cooked for their kids, love her and the idea of opening their own restaurant with their ill-gotten venture capital funds. The real heroes of "California cuisine" are the growers of heirloom varieties like the Koda brothers, pickers (mostly recent immigrants), and people who work in the grocery stores like at the Berkeley Bowl or Rainbow Co-op in SF. It's especially weird how Chez Panisse doesn't hire real cooks. The people they do hire always have some privileged backstory and an aspiration to write a book. Working there is basically a hustle and a CV fluff. They only cook so they can write languid prose about how sensuous the act of cooking is for them. Gack! I don't even think they care about their customers since iI's common knowledge that after a meal at Chez Panisse you need to go out again for a hamburger or tacos. Seriously...that's the embarrassing truth.