French Cuisine
Her cooking show, The French Chef, was produced in 1963 before there was a Food Network or television shows that taught about or involved food. Julia Child didn’t broadcast her show on commercial TV because she wanted her shows to be solely for the purpose of teaching. WGBH, Boston's PBS station, produced 199 episodes of The French Chef between 1963 and 1966. Russ Morash was the producer and director. It was important for her to teach not just recipes but techniques, and how to select ingredients and use the correct cooking equipment for the task. If she made a mistake on the show she made it an opportunity to teach her listeners how to fix it. "Julia's success as a showman has been to turn her contretemps into triumphs." (time.com) She displayed good humor about her mishaps and SNL did a comedy skit that demonstrated how to fix the big mistake of cutting your finger. She ended each show with the phase that she became famous for, "Bon Appetit." Her show was such a success that "Manhattan matrons refused to dine out the night she is on." (time.com)