I wrote about The French Chef in a Thanksgiving-appropriate edition of the A.V. Club's TV Club 10. It includes a guide to the most essential episodes, including:
“The Potato Show” (season one, episode 22): This episode is famous for Child’s failed attempt to flip a large potato pancake, pieces of which land on the stovetop. “You can pick it up when you’re alone in the kitchen,” she says, using her hands to put the errant pieces in the pan. “Who is going to see?” The moment became embellished over the years, but Child did not drop an entire chicken on the floor (as the urban legend has it) and put it back on a serving plate, in this or any other episode. Child has two sound pieces of advice here. First, when trying anything difficult, “You must have the courage of your convictions.” And when a mistake is made, “You haven’t lost anything because you can always turn it into something else… We’ll pretend that this was supposed to be a baked potato dish.”
One great Child quote, from an episode on Hollandaise sauce, that I wasn't able to squeeze in:
“Whenever [eggs] are going to be cooked or made into something, they almost always have to be beaten up first. For some reason, this prepares them for the dreadful things that are going to happen to them afterward. You can think of eggs as rather nasty little people that need to be beaten and treated roughly. It’s like ‘Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes. And then he’ll always do the right thing.’ That’s just how you should feel about egg yolks.”
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