What's on your baked potato?

Try washing the potato, patting it dry, coating it with oil, and rolling it in a liberal amount of salt before baking.

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I aim to not turn a food that is inherently healthy (like a potato) and add high fat, high cholesterol, high sodium ingredients that quickly convert it into a nutritional disaster.
 
hollydolly said:
I haven't got a clue who Julia Child even IS...
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She was quite a woman, an American icon, for sure. Loved and adored by many. 🙂

"Julia Child is probably best known for bringing French cuisine into America’s mainstream. But, few know that she had a dynamic career as an intelligence officer before she became a cooking icon.

Julia’s cooking career has a place in American history, as many remember her as an enthusiastic and opinionated chef. With her many television series and cookbooks, her legacy still lives on."

Central Intelligence Agency - Julia Child: Cooking Up Spy Ops for OSS > https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-cooking-up-spy-ops-for-oss/

American Masters - Biography Of Julia Child > https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/julia-child-about-julia-child/555/


Bella ✌️
 
Thanks for that @Bella, I have never heard of her... ...I suppose we all have our 'original' tv chefs and cooks who taught us how to cook... we had one way back in the B&W tv days called Fanny Craddock, she was an irritable old coot, but she became a national Icon despite really not being able to cook very well ..but she got away with it for years... .. however the TV chef that most of my age grew up on was Delia Smith...

 
I've never heard of Delia Smith, thanks for sharing. 😊

You must know of Ann Willan, she's fabulous! She's my favorite British chef.

Ann Willan - Christmas Holiday Cooking Standing Rib Roast With Martha Stewart


Bella ✌️
 
If I recall correctly, you don't like cooking shows. Do I have that right? 🤔
 
Just looked her up... seems she was born in the UK, and that's pretty much where it ended. She spent most of her years in France and the USA... I can tell you she has never been on our Cooking channels..

We have some fantastic TV chefs.. and dozens of them


I wouldn't say I don't like them..it's just that we're pretty saturated with them on our TV channels.. they often take the place of entertainment shows, so it gets a bit tiring.. but believe me , I know all of our TV chefs.. even worked with a few
 
hollydolly said:
Just looked her up... seems she was born in the UK, and that's pretty much where it ended. She spent most of her years in France and the USA... I can tell you she has never been on our Cooking channels..

We have some fantastic TV chefs.. and hundreds of them

I wouldn't say I don't like them..it's just that we're pretty saturated with them on our TV channels.. they often take te place of entertainment shows, so it gets a bit tiring.. but believe me , I know all of our TV chefs.. even worked with a few
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Ann Willan had a TV series here in the States on PBS called Look & Cook. I think it was 1997. I assumed she was also popular in England. 🥴

"Born in Newcastle, England, Anne received her master’s degree from Cambridge University, then studied and taught cooking in London and Paris before moving to the United States and becoming a citizen in 1973."

Yes, she lives in France and had a cooking school there for over thirty years. I have her cookbook "From My Chateau Kitchen". It's wonderful.

Bella ✌️

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hollydolly said:
Just looked her up... seems she was born in the UK, and that's pretty much where it ended. She spent most of her years in France and the USA... I can tell you she has never been on our Cooking channels..

We have some fantastic TV chefs.. and dozens of them



I wouldn't say I don't like them..it's just that we're pretty saturated with them on our TV channels.. they often take the place of entertainment shows, so it gets a bit tiring.. but believe me , I know all of our TV chefs.. even worked with a few
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The best way, in my opinion, to learn about Julia Child is to watch a wonderful movie called Julie and Julia. It's about a woman in New York who works her way through Julia Child's cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The movie shows Julia Child's life and how she influenced the woman who was making all the recipes in the cookbook. Meryl Streep played Julia Child and was amazing. It's an adorable movie!
 

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