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Julia's voice was always
in my house.

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If you don't know how to sift,
well, you're a failure!

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You're just never gonna lear
how to cook.

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I have a major phobia of fish.

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Put a little something over its face.

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Eight passionate home
cooks are about to do the impossible.

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- Let's go right to it.
- Okay.

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They'll cook
alongside their hero...

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- Delicious.
- It's really yummy.

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Who also started
as a home cook...

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I just love to muck around
in the kitchen.

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And found her calling
later in life.

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Welcome to The French Chef.

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I'm Julia Child.

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They'll cook in a kitchen
just like hers...

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It's so close to the real thing.

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With the same
ingredients that she used..

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Mmm. He's having a moment.

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Matching the enthusiasm..

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- Oh!
- Yay!

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That made her...

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Voila!

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- Julia.
- Hey!

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Get cooking.

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One cook will wi
the ultimate prize...

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All I can do is hope.

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A 3-month all-expense-paid
trip to cooking school in Paris.

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What? Can you tag me
into this competition?

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All in their quest to prove...

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All you need is a little bit
of imagination.

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Who has the fire?

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- The skills?
- Hoo-hoo!

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And the passion...

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I can't stop eating it.

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- To win...
- That's time.

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The Julia Child Challenge.

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Hello. I'm Julia Child.

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Walking into Julia's kitchen
right now, I feel this place is magic.

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You know, it's sensory overload.

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It looks exactly
like her kitchen.

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It feels like The Wizard of Oz.

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Like, when she goes to Oz,

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and it's like everything
suddenly like brightens

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and turns to color
from black and white.

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You know, I just love
to muck around in the kitche

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and I like to make up things.

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I just love to improvise.

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Julia Child presents
the chicken sisters.

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I'm all ready to make fish.

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It feels a bit surreal.

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Like, how did I end up here?

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This is Julia Child,
bon appetit.

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Hi, everyone! Hi!

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I've watched
Chef Antonia many times on T

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I am so happy and thrilled
to have her here.

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Welcome to
Julia Child's kitchen.

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So, in Julia Child's home,

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no one ever entered
through the front door.

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Everyone always came through
the side door into the kitchen

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because that's where
they knew she would be.

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Her kitchen was
covered in pegboard,

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so you can see the pots
and pans hanging on them.

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And for her, it was a way
of showing the world

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this is what this room is for.

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And it was a place
for learning, laughing

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and, of course, cooking.

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Over the coming weeks,
you will be doing just that,

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guided by Julia herself,

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with a little help from me.

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And some special guests
like these guys.

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Dustin, I heard that you met
Julia in a movie theater once.

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I... She was eating
movie theater popcorn,

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but I didn't get any,

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but it was a nice quick talk.

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She was so polite and sweet.

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Each week, you will cook
in two rounds.

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Based on your performance
from both rounds,

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there'll be one winner,

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and one cook will have
to leave Julia's kitchen.

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The last home cook standing
will get a prize.

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The winner will get to follow
in Julia's own footsteps

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and go to Paris, France,

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and take a 3-month course at
the same school that she went to,

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Le Cordon Bleu.

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- Wow!
- Wow!

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For this first round, we're
gonna begin where it all began.

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So, Julia Child's first French
meal was at La Couronne.

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It was oysters, sole meuniere,

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green salad, wine,
and black coffee.

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And after eating that meal,

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she knew that cooking was
exactly what she wanted to do.

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For this round, we want you to
make a dish from this meal, sole meuniere.

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So, sole meuniere is a sole
lightly dusted in flour,

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sauteed in butter,

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and then brightened up
with lemon,

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and maybe a little parsley,
classically, anyway.

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You'll each be given
a whole fish,

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and you'll have to break it
down to get your fillets.

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And sole is a flatfish,

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so it might be a little tough.

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There's someone very special
who'll be able to help you out with this,

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Julia, herself.

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- Get to it.
- Bonne chance.

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Today, we're gonna
do fish fundamentals.

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These are the basic things
we all ought to know

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like cleaning and filleting
and boning.

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You'll notice this line that
comes right along from the tail

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on up to the top of the gills.

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And that's the line that you
follow to start the filleting.

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And just cut right down,
following that line.

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Now, to take the skin off,

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you hold onto it,
and with your knife,

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you just wiggle both knife and
skin, and the skin comes off.

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It's just as easy as pie.

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Sole meuniere.

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- What are you looking at me for?
- Well, because as I

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'cause as I said it to you, like, I saw
this little smirk come onto your face

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'cause I'm sure you feel the
same way that I do about it.

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This was the first thing that I did in
my very first class in culinary school,

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as a test to move on to the
next phase of... of lesson.

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How many people do you think
are gonna stick to the classic recipe

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or just take a complete detour?

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Oh, my God. I... It's like I
knew this was coming. Um...

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Shoot.

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Just put a little something
over its face.

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So, I have a major
phobia of fish.

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If a fish has the head on it
I can't go anywhere near it.

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On a scale from one to ten
as a home cook,

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I would rate my skills
at a solid 10.

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Uh, I like to throw
these lavish dinner parties

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where my friends are require
to wear specific outfits.

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There's often, like,
a murder mystery theme,

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or I did a dinner party based
on the final menu from the Titanic

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and I had, like,
24 courses of food.

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All right, man. So, how long are
we gonna have two Dustins in here?

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- Forever. Till the bitter end.
- Forever.

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- All the way...
- All the way to the end.

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There's so many times
I go to a restaurant

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where I'm, like, "I could
definitely make this better."

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For my dish, I'm adding brown
butter, roasted mushrooms

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and pickled mushrooms.

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Uh, my name is Dustin.
I live in Chicago.

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I've been working in fitnes
for the past 11 years.

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I was in sports in high school,

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and then joined the military

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and went overseas,

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and I found myself helping o
some of my fellow soldiers

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who weren't passing
their physical training test.

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And I realized I just really love
to help others, kind of, be stronger

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and live healthier lifestyle.

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I cook probably five to six
days of the week.

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When I'm cooking for others
it's four or five courses,

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and people will
come over for dinner

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and think they're gonna have,
like, a casserole or something.

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And I've got five dishes with several
components, all with different plates,

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and I definitely make cooking
a bit of a production.

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I mean, I would describe Julia
Child as boisterous and flamboyant

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and, uh, lively
and full of energy.

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But also like loving, right?

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Like, her goal was
to share this thing she was

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extremely passionate about
with others.

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I mean, making cooking feel
more accessible is important

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because I have so many friends
who... who every single day,

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they order takeout.

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In the '50s, American food
started to become about, like,

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"How do you do less and les
and less in the kitchen?"

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We had this whole industry that
was now making like instant foods

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and processed foods and jar
and like... and cans.

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- And like that became fashionable.
- Right.

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And she was coming out to say,

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"Hey, let's go back
to an older way of cooking,"

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where you might go get a
whole fish from the fish market...

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- Right.
- Instead of shrink-wrapped in the supermarket.

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This is this famous sole.

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It has a lovely firm flesh.

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It's white on the underside
and gray on the topside.

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Sole meuniere, the
dish, is relatively simple.

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I'm gonna make sure
all the elements are there,

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the parsley, the lemon,
a course the brown butter,

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My name is Britt.

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Uh, I'm originally from
Georgia, but living in New York.

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Growing up with southern foo
and fried chicken and peache

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and, you know,
all those good things.

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I actually learned cooking
from my mother.

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And, of course, Julia Child,

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watching her on television when I
was, you know, seven, eight years old.

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You can be simple or you ca
be very elaborate, indeed.

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I wanna be the firs
soul food restaurant in Europe.

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Europeans are curious
about soul food.

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That's just like the ultimate
3 to 5-year plan.

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I was super happy
to see Michael Voltaggio.

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He has worked in Thomas Keller's
restauran uh, French Laundry.

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Having him here to taste my
food is pretty freakin' awesome.

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So, Michael, I need you to tell
us your Julia Child's meeting.

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Picture, uh, a 19, 20...
19 or 20...

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- I was about 20-year-old Michael Voltaggio.
- Yep.

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I'm at this resort in
the middle of West Virginia.

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One day, Julia Child
was the guest chef.

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I... I went to go meet her,

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and I went in to like
do like the...

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I was trying to do
the cool kiss like...

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But when I went in,
she was like sitting down,

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and just turned her face,

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and we just...

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I was like,
"I just kissed Julia Child."

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And then I'm, like...

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Like, "Am I gonna get
fired right now?"

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Like, "What's gonna happen?"

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I just turned like beet red,

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and, uh, I was just like,
"It's very nice to meet you,"

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- and I just walked away.
- Really?

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And "I'll be... I'll be over there prepping
your demo for tomorrow if you need me."

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So, what is it like that we're here, Bill?

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It's so close to the real thing,

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- it's kind of surreal.
- Isn't it?

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My name is Elena.

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I am making the classic
sole meuniere with gnocchi.

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I was born in the Philippine and
then we moved here when I was 11.

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Cooking is definitely a hobb that I
just wanna get Bette at every day.

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The cuisine that I like to cook
the most is definitely Italian food.

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I would definitely say
that pasta is my...

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My jam.

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- Hey, Elena.
- Francis.

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- Hello.
- How are you?

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So, I have to say,
it's an honor to meet you.

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Oh, my God. It's an honor
to meet you,

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uh, because, um, I've been a
Gourmet, um, fan forever.

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He has influenced the way
that I think about food.

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The fact that he's here,
my jaw dropped.

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Oh, thank you for saying that.

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- I think I'm just gonna use the shears actually.
- Yeah.

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This is the Julia hack.

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- This is the thing where, you know...
- Yep.

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- The French Chef might not be down...
- Julia.

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- But Julia's gonna tell you how to do it.
- Yeah, exactly.

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I have been
such a Julia Child fan.

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I think about her all the time
when I'm cooking in the kitchen.

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I have this poster.

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And it's a poster
of Julia Child right there.

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The background is from the
Mastering the Art of French Cooking

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that she had written.

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No matter what situation
I'm dealing with,

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I just always look at this
and be like,

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"What would Julia do?"

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Yeah, that's cilantro.

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Going to the garbage.

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Voila.

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- Hi!
- How's it going?

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- Um, I think I'm going well.
- Okay.

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- I'm getting to know my fish.
- You're... You're getting to know your fish.

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It's always important.

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Yes.

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It's, um, the beginning of
a good relationship, I hope.

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Yep, I love it.

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I mean, you... you feel confident in
what it is that you're doing right now.

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- Julia always said we have to be confident, right?
- Exactly.

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I'm... I'm trying to.

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My name is Jaine.
I am from Brazil.

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But I've been living
in the U.S. for five years.

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Following the line.

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I was born in Brazil
in the Amazon.

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I saw Julia Child on TV.

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The first thing that caught my
attention is that she was so tall.

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And I'm a tall girl myself.

00:11:26.754 --> 00:11:28.465
I'm 6 feet.

00:11:28.489 --> 00:11:32.392
And then I told my mom, like,
"Mom, maybe I'll be a cook like Julia."

00:11:32.460 --> 00:11:33.704
And here I am.

00:11:33.728 --> 00:11:35.506
I wanna make fish quenelles

00:11:35.530 --> 00:11:38.843
which are shaped
and poached in fish stock,

00:11:38.867 --> 00:11:41.345
and served with a... the...
pretty much the same sauce,

00:11:41.369 --> 00:11:42.813
but a little bit creamier.

00:11:42.837 --> 00:11:47.251
What I like about quenelles
is that their flavor is really mild,

00:11:47.275 --> 00:11:50.777
and you can really, really
taste the... the fish itself.

00:11:50.845 --> 00:11:53.658
Um, I have to prepare
the fish mousse.

00:11:53.682 --> 00:11:58.062
To make quenelles, I have to put
the fillets into the food processor

00:11:58.086 --> 00:12:00.720
to make them into a mousse.

00:12:02.290 --> 00:12:04.268
It's kind of crazy to me
that that beautiful expensive fish

00:12:04.292 --> 00:12:05.724
would get turned into a mousse.

00:12:05.794 --> 00:12:09.640
For me, that's a very far
departure from what we asked for.

00:12:09.664 --> 00:12:12.532
It is a risk, for sure.
I just have to be confident.

00:12:17.405 --> 00:12:20.451
Meuniere means
the miller's wife.

00:12:20.475 --> 00:12:24.555
La Belle Meuniere, she's
always supposed to be beautiful

00:12:24.579 --> 00:12:27.613
and covered a little bit
with flour, I imagine.

00:12:30.685 --> 00:12:33.698
My name is Christine.
I'm from Hoboken, New Jersey.

00:12:33.722 --> 00:12:36.934
And I'm a lifelong home cook

00:12:36.958 --> 00:12:39.370
I was a teacher for a decade.

00:12:39.394 --> 00:12:40.938
Very good!

00:12:40.962 --> 00:12:42.640
It wasn't where my heart was.

00:12:42.664 --> 00:12:45.176
So that's part of the reason,
like, I've always liked Julia Chil

00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:47.133
is that she started so late

00:12:47.201 --> 00:12:49.380
I just feel, like, a deep
connection to her in that way.

00:12:49.404 --> 00:12:51.304
Right now,
I'm chopping up pistachios.

00:12:51.372 --> 00:12:54.518
I'm gonna toast them to
put over the roasted grapes.

00:12:54.542 --> 00:12:58.244
I am making sole
topped with roasted grapes

00:12:58.312 --> 00:13:01.392
in a rosemary and lemon
simple syrup,

00:13:01.416 --> 00:13:03.516
and topping it
with toasted pistachios.

00:13:03.551 --> 00:13:08.265
Grapes. I have not seen grapes
in a sole meuniere dish.

00:13:08.289 --> 00:13:10.267
Tell me where's the grape
inspiration coming from?

00:13:10.291 --> 00:13:12.803
Um, I love adding like that
little sweet factor to fish,

00:13:12.827 --> 00:13:14.405
- Mmm-hmm.
- Or like any sort of like extra pop.

00:13:14.429 --> 00:13:16.307
Okay. Um, real quick though.

00:13:16.331 --> 00:13:19.110
It is about, sort of, the
mastering of the technique,

00:13:19.134 --> 00:13:21.312
- so make sure the fish is cooked really beautifully.
- Mmm, okay.

00:13:21.336 --> 00:13:23.547
I love that you're getting super,
super creative, -Mmm-hmm.

00:13:23.571 --> 00:13:25.983
- But the basics are really important.
- Okay.

00:13:26.007 --> 00:13:27.484
Gonna put this one in here.

00:13:27.508 --> 00:13:30.710
Not only do I have to put my
spin on a dish that's a classic,

00:13:30.778 --> 00:13:34.792
but I also have to put my spin
on a dish that's elemental.

00:13:34.816 --> 00:13:37.328
It's fish, parsley,
butter and salt.

00:13:37.352 --> 00:13:39.285
Oh, my God. Lemon.

00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.132
Lemon, lemon, lemon,
lemon, lemon.

00:13:41.156 --> 00:13:43.556
My name is Bill.
I live in Hudson, New York.

00:13:43.591 --> 00:13:45.269
I have some fingerling potatoes,

00:13:45.293 --> 00:13:47.338
and then I'll
make it all happen.

00:13:47.362 --> 00:13:50.596
My mother cooked
every single meal that I ate

00:13:50.631 --> 00:13:52.143
I left and went to college,

00:13:52.167 --> 00:13:54.934
and I received
as a graduation gift.

00:13:55.002 --> 00:13:57.236
Julia Child's The Way to Co.

00:13:57.305 --> 00:14:02.875
And that book became my introduction
to Julia Chi and to French cooking.

00:14:02.910 --> 00:14:06.791
So, the first thing I made
was her French onion soup,

00:14:06.815 --> 00:14:10.795
and I did that because I had
no money, and onions are cheap.

00:14:10.819 --> 00:14:13.431
These are taking
their own sweet time here.

00:14:13.455 --> 00:14:16.066
You see fish
that looks like this.

00:14:16.090 --> 00:14:18.502
Like, if you see... you can
actually see through it.

00:14:18.526 --> 00:14:22.361
It means that you've pulled all of
the meat off that bone beautifully.

00:14:22.430 --> 00:14:23.441
Okay. You didn't leave
any meat on there

00:14:23.465 --> 00:14:26.377
- which is fantastic.
- Thank you.

00:14:26.401 --> 00:14:29.346
My name is Fabrizio. I'm 24,
and I'm from Portland, Oregon.

00:14:29.370 --> 00:14:33.206
I used to be a waiter, but I
after I lost both of my jobs,

00:14:33.241 --> 00:14:35.619
I just found myself
watching a lot of food content.

00:14:35.643 --> 00:14:38.255
And then one day I thought,
"I kind of wanna try that."

00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:41.492
So I started messing around
in the kitchen, following recipes.

00:14:41.516 --> 00:14:44.361
And I've been filming recipe
since the beginning of quarantine.

00:14:44.385 --> 00:14:48.187
And, thankfully, that's sort
of become my full-time job.

00:14:48.256 --> 00:14:51.335
Brown butter sauce, but
infused with a little chorizo.

00:14:51.359 --> 00:14:53.137
My parents,
they immigrated from Mexico.

00:14:53.161 --> 00:14:56.707
And I was the first person in
the family to be born in the States.

00:14:56.731 --> 00:15:00.199
My father worked as a line cook
for many year He still loves to cook.

00:15:00.234 --> 00:15:03.747
I wanna focus on the cuisin
of my people.

00:15:03.771 --> 00:15:08.552
I do like to see how far I can polish
up foods my grandmother would make,

00:15:08.576 --> 00:15:11.978
and still be Mexican food,
but just refined.

00:15:14.415 --> 00:15:18.329
This is great grandmother's
ancient mortar.

00:15:18.353 --> 00:15:22.288
And this is what she used
to pound things up in.

00:15:22.356 --> 00:15:26.303
When it comes to the
kitchen, I used to be a lot more rigi.

00:15:26.327 --> 00:15:27.760
But Julia's energy
is so contagious.

00:15:27.828 --> 00:15:30.541
It's taught me
to be more relaxed,

00:15:30.565 --> 00:15:32.565
and, yeah,
it's the joy of cooking.

00:15:33.368 --> 00:15:35.479
Oh, God, no!

00:15:35.503 --> 00:15:39.316
My potatoes aren't cooking,
so it's time to pivot.

00:15:39.340 --> 00:15:41.385
- I wanted to make gnocchi.
- Okay.

00:15:41.409 --> 00:15:43.109
And so, it didn't roast enough.

00:15:43.177 --> 00:15:44.989
So, now I'm just
gonna shingle these,

00:15:45.013 --> 00:15:47.291
and then put... still put them
in the brown butter

00:15:47.315 --> 00:15:49.360
and then alongside the rest
of the sole meuniere.

00:15:49.384 --> 00:15:52.852
- Can I offer one piece of unsolicited advice?
- Sure.

00:15:52.920 --> 00:15:55.232
- Stop for a second, put it down.
- Okay.

00:15:55.256 --> 00:15:57.590
Take a deep breath.

00:15:57.658 --> 00:15:59.258
- Thank you.
- You're doing amazing.

00:15:59.327 --> 00:16:00.327
Thank you so much.

00:16:00.394 --> 00:16:03.195
Britt's station,
you can actually see

00:16:03.264 --> 00:16:05.765
- too much smoke coming off of that pan.
- Yeah.

00:16:05.800 --> 00:16:09.513
You want to keep watching
as you saute the fish

00:16:09.537 --> 00:16:11.671
to make sure that
the butter isn't burning.

00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:16.776
And if the flesh just comes
away from the bowl, it's done.

00:16:16.811 --> 00:16:21.480
I think when people say when
the fish flakes easily, it's done,

00:16:21.549 --> 00:16:23.494
that it's overdone, actually.

00:16:23.518 --> 00:16:25.985
I lost a fillet in battle.

00:16:26.020 --> 00:16:28.321
Never cooked under
pressure before. It's hard.

00:16:28.389 --> 00:16:30.701
I'm looking at the clock
and the time is ticking.

00:16:30.725 --> 00:16:33.604
The perfectionist in me
is screaming right now,

00:16:33.628 --> 00:16:36.640
like, I'm done, we're done,
and I'm just gonna...

00:16:36.664 --> 00:16:38.509
I'm out the door.
She's already left.

00:16:38.533 --> 00:16:39.777
I'm still here
holding the bag, like,

00:16:39.801 --> 00:16:41.500
"What do we do?
Perfectionist, come back!"

00:16:42.637 --> 00:16:44.582
I'll just plate it
super beautifully

00:16:44.606 --> 00:16:47.573
because the fillets kind of
like fought with me.

00:16:47.642 --> 00:16:49.642
It's just not my day.

00:16:52.847 --> 00:16:56.827
Quenelle, they look
like little white sausages,

00:16:56.851 --> 00:16:58.362
but they ain't.

00:16:58.386 --> 00:16:59.819
They're made out of fish.

00:16:59.887 --> 00:17:03.089
And these quenelles are just
as light as a feather.

00:17:03.124 --> 00:17:06.337
They get poached in water.

00:17:06.361 --> 00:17:09.640
Four and a half minutes
left, make sure you guys are plating.

00:17:09.664 --> 00:17:14.712
Dustin H, seems like he has a
very strong kitchen presence.

00:17:14.736 --> 00:17:16.680
- You can see him basting his fish.
- Mmm-hmm.

00:17:16.704 --> 00:17:18.282
Such a perfect technique,

00:17:18.306 --> 00:17:21.185
especially when you have
such a thin fish.

00:17:21.209 --> 00:17:24.054
The basting of that butter
on top of it is going to give it

00:17:24.078 --> 00:17:25.489
- a beautiful crust.
- Help. Yeah.

00:17:25.513 --> 00:17:27.691
- And It will cook it from the top...
- And it will sear it.

00:17:27.715 --> 00:17:29.715
- And the bottom as well, yeah.
- Exactly, exactly.

00:17:31.753 --> 00:17:33.230
I'll be honest,
I don't love a roasted fish

00:17:33.254 --> 00:17:36.934
so I'm gonna say fried fish is
the way to go for me for safety

00:17:36.958 --> 00:17:38.798
because it's something
I feel comfortable with.

00:17:39.961 --> 00:17:41.493
Okay.

00:17:41.562 --> 00:17:45.509
Fish fry is maybe not the most
elevated in the classy sense,

00:17:45.533 --> 00:17:48.668
but it is different,
it's my own twist.

00:17:49.604 --> 00:17:53.439
Time just sort of
mysteriously evaporates.

00:17:53.507 --> 00:17:56.375
I'm trying to get my aioli
together, but then I realize...

00:17:56.444 --> 00:17:57.721
Here we go.

00:17:57.745 --> 00:17:59.723
It's time to plate.

00:17:59.747 --> 00:18:01.692
30 seconds!

00:18:01.716 --> 00:18:03.060
This is going so bad.

00:18:03.084 --> 00:18:04.550
So, my plan is
to serve this fish

00:18:04.585 --> 00:18:07.364
in these beautiful cups with a
little parchment cone around it,

00:18:07.388 --> 00:18:09.633
and have the fish
all sitting up nice and cute,

00:18:09.657 --> 00:18:12.703
but I'm basically just goin to
have to throw the fish at the plate

00:18:12.727 --> 00:18:13.727
and hope it sticks.

00:18:13.794 --> 00:18:15.628
I actually think
I'm gonna make this.

00:18:21.602 --> 00:18:23.669
That's it, that's time.

00:18:24.906 --> 00:18:27.540
And that's the whole fish story.

00:18:27.742 --> 00:18:28.974
Bon appetit.

00:18:30.678 --> 00:18:32.890
I call this little dish,
"It is what it is."

00:18:32.914 --> 00:18:36.148
Sole with a little
chorizo brown butter

00:18:36.183 --> 00:18:37.561
on a little bed of spinach

00:18:37.585 --> 00:18:39.897
with a... just like a nice
little simple chimichurri

00:18:39.921 --> 00:18:41.432
to not distract
too much from the sole.

00:18:41.456 --> 00:18:44.334
I love the butter. I actually
love the addition of the chorizo.

00:18:44.358 --> 00:18:46.136
- And the fish is cooked really beautifully.
- Oh, thank you so much.

00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.539
I'd say the balance of
acidity here is really nice.

00:18:48.563 --> 00:18:51.408
That little hint of chorizo mixed
with the acid and the brown butter

00:18:51.432 --> 00:18:53.410
is like...
It's like a hug in my mouth.

00:18:53.434 --> 00:18:55.901
- I'm here for it.
- Thank you, Chef, thank you.

00:18:58.539 --> 00:18:59.416
I'm gonna be honest,

00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:01.518
I have a terrible fear of fish.

00:19:01.542 --> 00:19:03.387
It is something that's
plagued me my entire life.

00:19:03.411 --> 00:19:05.222
Their faces, the smell of it.

00:19:05.246 --> 00:19:07.491
It comes from
childhood. It's a literal trauma.

00:19:07.515 --> 00:19:08.892
- I've tried to get over it. I can't eat it.
- No.

00:19:08.916 --> 00:19:10.294
I can't do much with it.

00:19:10.318 --> 00:19:12.830
Can you talk about why
you have a fear of fish?

00:19:12.854 --> 00:19:15.354
- And don't like...
- Um, it's pretty gross.

00:19:15.422 --> 00:19:16.700
But I'll talk about it.

00:19:16.724 --> 00:19:18.335
Um, so it was in the '80s...

00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:20.204
- Uh, uh...
- Oh, the '80s.

00:19:20.228 --> 00:19:21.660
Post oil spill,

00:19:21.728 --> 00:19:24.475
we were out, like, wading with
my grandparents, we're on a beach.

00:19:24.499 --> 00:19:26.477
We didn't know it was closed
'cause we didn't read the news.

00:19:26.501 --> 00:19:28.701
- And we just sort of waded into like...
- Oh, boy.

00:19:28.769 --> 00:19:30.246
And sorry,
while you're eating it.

00:19:30.270 --> 00:19:32.583
I was just gonna say this might
make me not wanna eat fish ever again.

00:19:32.607 --> 00:19:34.485
I'm waiting for the right moment.

00:19:34.509 --> 00:19:36.787
Like, half-eaten fish carcasses
like washed up. I was like six.

00:19:36.811 --> 00:19:38.622
So, it was like
definitely traumatizing.

00:19:38.646 --> 00:19:40.057
So now the smell's
bringing back...

00:19:40.081 --> 00:19:42.448
So I covered it's little face
while I filleted it. Um...

00:19:42.516 --> 00:19:46.886
I love the cook on the fish. I
mean, it is succulent in the center.

00:19:46.954 --> 00:19:49.421
There's these beautiful crispy
parts are coming throughout.

00:19:49.490 --> 00:19:50.467
It's cooked textbook.

00:19:50.491 --> 00:19:51.468
- I appreciate that.
- Yeah, really nice.

00:19:51.492 --> 00:19:53.937
I think we're missing
a few components here.

00:19:53.961 --> 00:19:55.205
I'm curious to see
what else you have to offer.

00:19:55.229 --> 00:19:57.563
Okay, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.

00:20:01.769 --> 00:20:05.415
This is classic sole
meuniere, but tasting menu style,

00:20:05.439 --> 00:20:06.439
hence, the size.

00:20:07.375 --> 00:20:09.720
Um, um, it's sauteed spinach,

00:20:09.744 --> 00:20:12.623
uh, with a little bit of
infused lemon salt.

00:20:12.647 --> 00:20:15.781
I would have loved to see
a pool of brown butter.

00:20:15.850 --> 00:20:17.494
- Yeah.
- A pool of it

00:20:17.518 --> 00:20:19.429
that I could swim in, dive in.

00:20:19.453 --> 00:20:21.487
Like, there's never
enough brown butter.

00:20:21.522 --> 00:20:22.833
Just repeat that.

00:20:22.857 --> 00:20:24.635
- There's never enough brown butter.
- All right. Brown butter.

00:20:24.659 --> 00:20:27.604
I mean, I think the fish
is, uh, cooked deliciously.

00:20:27.628 --> 00:20:29.640
And I love how true to
the classic dish you stayed.

00:20:29.664 --> 00:20:31.664
Thank you so much.

00:20:33.634 --> 00:20:38.337
I prepared, um, sole meuniere
with roasted grapes.

00:20:38.405 --> 00:20:42.274
One suggestion I would have is
the grapes taste a little bit sweet.

00:20:42.343 --> 00:20:44.421
So, however you treated them
that made them taste sweet,

00:20:44.445 --> 00:20:46.423
I would have just left
that part out and maybe just

00:20:46.447 --> 00:20:48.325
- thrown the grapes into the brown butter.
- Okay.

00:20:48.349 --> 00:20:49.760
I would salt it
a little bit more.

00:20:49.784 --> 00:20:50.961
Yeah, add a little acid to it.

00:20:50.985 --> 00:20:52.617
Thank you for your advice.

00:20:56.357 --> 00:20:59.525
We have sole meuniere,
and some roasted mushrooms,

00:20:59.560 --> 00:21:00.800
and then some pickled mushrooms

00:21:00.828 --> 00:21:02.948
and then just garnished
with a little bit of tarragon.

00:21:04.732 --> 00:21:08.367
This reminds me of something I
would get at, like, Paul Bocuse.

00:21:08.435 --> 00:21:10.013
- Classic.
- Yep.

00:21:10.037 --> 00:21:12.749
You've got the... the roasted
mushrooms and the pickled mushrooms.

00:21:12.773 --> 00:21:14.518
- The fish is filleted beautifully.
- Beautifully.

00:21:14.542 --> 00:21:16.542
Thank you, chefs.

00:21:17.278 --> 00:21:19.523
So, I've made a sole meuniere,

00:21:19.547 --> 00:21:22.559
seeded and diced tomatoes,
almonds,

00:21:22.583 --> 00:21:24.617
uh, a lot of thyme.

00:21:24.819 --> 00:21:27.631
The fish
is filleted beautifully.

00:21:27.655 --> 00:21:29.466
The fact that you
took the tomatoes

00:21:29.490 --> 00:21:31.235
and took the time to score them,

00:21:31.259 --> 00:21:32.736
take the skin off of them,

00:21:32.760 --> 00:21:36.495
these are classic techniques and
then implementing them into a dish.

00:21:36.530 --> 00:21:38.464
Perfectly boiled potatoes.

00:21:38.532 --> 00:21:40.466
When I cut through it,
it was like silk.

00:21:40.501 --> 00:21:41.866
Thank you, chefs.

00:21:45.306 --> 00:21:50.109
I made sole quenelle
and the sauce is brown butter,

00:21:50.144 --> 00:21:52.723
uh, lemon, parsley,
salt and pepper,

00:21:52.747 --> 00:21:55.114
and I added some capers.

00:21:55.182 --> 00:21:58.295
Um, I thought the quenelle
was an ambitious idea.

00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:00.653
It's more of a meatball
than a mousse

00:22:00.688 --> 00:22:02.655
because of the texture
of the meat itself.

00:22:02.690 --> 00:22:05.502
So I think typically if you want
to make a quenelle really smooth,

00:22:05.526 --> 00:22:07.671
you blend it for
a little bit longer.

00:22:07.695 --> 00:22:09.306
It tastes really good.

00:22:09.330 --> 00:22:11.408
If I closed my eyes
and ate this blindfolded,

00:22:11.432 --> 00:22:14.144
I would be like, "Okay, I'm
eating sole meuniere right now."

00:22:14.168 --> 00:22:16.747
- With some capers.
- But, yeah, I think it's really yummy.

00:22:16.771 --> 00:22:17.771
Thank you.

00:22:19.307 --> 00:22:21.106
So, it's a classic sole meuniere

00:22:21.175 --> 00:22:23.553
with brown butter and
roasted potatoes in the bottom.

00:22:23.577 --> 00:22:27.413
I had wanted to originally
make gnocchi...

00:22:27.481 --> 00:22:32.429
Like who's
gonna do that in an hour?

00:22:32.453 --> 00:22:35.321
- I happen to love the roasted potatoes.
- So good.

00:22:35.389 --> 00:22:36.522
The fish is textbook.

00:22:36.590 --> 00:22:38.190
Beautifully succulent
in the center.

00:22:38.258 --> 00:22:40.437
The potato maybe absorbed
too much of the butter.

00:22:40.461 --> 00:22:42.673
- Yeah.
- 'Cause I would've loved to see just more butter

00:22:42.697 --> 00:22:43.840
on the plate for the fish.

00:22:43.864 --> 00:22:44.930
Thank you.

00:22:51.305 --> 00:22:52.749
Let me just say this,

00:22:52.773 --> 00:22:56.553
Julia would've been so proud
of you guys today.

00:22:56.577 --> 00:22:58.288
There are some favorites.

00:22:58.312 --> 00:23:00.657
But we do take
into consideration

00:23:00.681 --> 00:23:03.794
your performance in both
rounds of cooking for today.

00:23:03.818 --> 00:23:06.463
My favorite today was Bill.

00:23:06.487 --> 00:23:07.998
Oh. Wow.

00:23:08.022 --> 00:23:11.068
The
filleting of the fish, beautiful, textbook.

00:23:11.092 --> 00:23:12.669
The browning on top,

00:23:12.693 --> 00:23:15.372
the succulent center really
just took it over the top for me.

00:23:15.396 --> 00:23:17.096
Thank you.

00:23:17.164 --> 00:23:21.600
If I have to choose one,
I will choose Dustin H.

00:23:22.870 --> 00:23:26.416
I saw this dish and there was
this immediate perceived value

00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:28.719
- of like a restaurant-quality dish.
- Thanks.

00:23:28.743 --> 00:23:31.210
And my favorite today
was Fabrizio.

00:23:33.114 --> 00:23:36.582
Using the chimichurri as a dressing
for the spinach was such a cool idea.

00:23:36.650 --> 00:23:39.284
I've never seen that before.
Really, really awesome job.

00:23:39.320 --> 00:23:41.298
Thank you so much, thank you.

00:23:41.322 --> 00:23:43.756
You three are the ones to watch.

00:23:43.824 --> 00:23:46.803
Okay, so, in honor
of that magical meal

00:23:46.827 --> 00:23:49.773
that Julia and Paul
had at La Couronne,

00:23:49.797 --> 00:23:53.565
for your second round of cooking,
we want you to take inspiration

00:23:53.601 --> 00:23:56.713
from Julia's life-changing
experience,

00:23:56.737 --> 00:24:00.406
and make us the meal that
changed everything for you.

00:24:00.474 --> 00:24:02.107
And as nod to Julia,

00:24:02.143 --> 00:24:04.410
you must incorporate
at least one ingredient

00:24:04.478 --> 00:24:07.124
from Julia's meal into yours.

00:24:07.148 --> 00:24:13.397
Oysters, from age blanc, shallots,
coffee, red wine, and baguette.

00:24:13.421 --> 00:24:17.300
We want you to create a meal
that changed your own food lives,

00:24:17.324 --> 00:24:19.491
that made you
fall in love with food

00:24:19.560 --> 00:24:21.860
and sent you on this culinary
journey you're on now.

00:24:22.463 --> 00:24:24.730
On that note, good luck.

00:24:31.705 --> 00:24:32.838
Oop, sorry, babe.

00:24:33.274 --> 00:24:34.618
I'm baking a cake.

00:24:34.642 --> 00:24:38.077
It's like a coffee butter cream
kind of cake.

00:24:40.448 --> 00:24:44.650
French cake is always
a low cake like this,

00:24:44.718 --> 00:24:47.130
and it's usually just made
in two layers.

00:24:47.154 --> 00:24:51.168
I used to bake this cake for
my father for his birthdays,

00:24:51.192 --> 00:24:55.138
but when I lost my dad
10 years ago,

00:24:55.162 --> 00:24:57.374
and when he passed was
when I realized, like,

00:24:57.398 --> 00:24:59.665
we don't have that much time.

00:25:00.901 --> 00:25:06.405
That actually made me leave
my unhappy life behind.

00:25:06.473 --> 00:25:10.053
You know, I realized I was
not happy being a lawyer

00:25:10.077 --> 00:25:11.409
and I wanted to try
something else

00:25:11.478 --> 00:25:17.116
and so much of him and his
gusto for life lives in me now.

00:25:20.754 --> 00:25:25.757
I'm doing the mussels a la
Normande as an homage to Normandy.

00:25:25.792 --> 00:25:27.237
My very first visit to Franc

00:25:27.261 --> 00:25:32.142
my first meal that I had the
was mussels and baguette.

00:25:32.166 --> 00:25:35.378
And I remember this
beautiful broth at the end.

00:25:35.402 --> 00:25:39.671
And, you know, you grow
up learning from Julia Child.

00:25:39.707 --> 00:25:42.541
Now, mussels a lot of peopl
don't... don't eat,

00:25:42.609 --> 00:25:44.287
but they're perfectly delicious.

00:25:44.311 --> 00:25:47.412
They're really... they're
called the poor man's oyster.

00:25:47.448 --> 00:25:49.648
Let them soak
for about two hours.

00:25:49.716 --> 00:25:51.583
And that gets rid of
the excess salt,

00:25:51.652 --> 00:25:53.819
and they degorge their sand.

00:25:56.724 --> 00:25:58.535
I gave myself a quick restart

00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:02.606
and I'm not going to let fish
be the downfall of me.

00:26:02.630 --> 00:26:05.797
I'm going to go into something I
definitely know. I'm doing a tarte Tatin.

00:26:09.603 --> 00:26:15.507
Then you want 3/4 stick
of chilled, hard, cold butte.

00:26:15.576 --> 00:26:21.013
Then slice it up because this
gives you a little bit of a head start

00:26:21.081 --> 00:26:23.660
I've made apple
tarte Tatin hundreds of times.

00:26:23.684 --> 00:26:26.530
There's big chunks of apple
caramel sauce on the bottom

00:26:26.554 --> 00:26:27.998
then a beautiful dough
on the bottom.

00:26:28.022 --> 00:26:29.799
So I feel pretty good.

00:26:29.823 --> 00:26:33.492
I want 15 minutes at the en to
hopefully let it sit before I flip it.

00:26:33.560 --> 00:26:35.539
When I saw Julia Child
make apple tarte Tatin,

00:26:35.563 --> 00:26:38.775
one of the things I remember the
most is that spilled over the edges

00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:41.400
and she's quickly, live on
television, trying to put it back on.

00:26:41.468 --> 00:26:43.880
If everything doesn't happe
quite the way you'd like,

00:26:43.904 --> 00:26:46.783
it doesn't make too much
difference because you can fix it.

00:26:46.807 --> 00:26:49.174
That unmolded very badly.

00:26:49.243 --> 00:26:52.289
And I'm thinking in my head, "That's
gotta be scalding hot apple liquid."

00:26:52.313 --> 00:26:54.213
And she just did it with suc
an ease of movement

00:26:54.281 --> 00:26:56.281
that it seemed so natural,
and so easy.

00:26:56.317 --> 00:26:59.462
And I said, you know, "I make
messes in the kitchen, I'm a child, right?"

00:26:59.486 --> 00:27:02.132
And so, I think that that wa
one of my first memories.

00:27:02.156 --> 00:27:04.167
If you make a little mistake,
it's totally fine.

00:27:04.191 --> 00:27:06.825
I'm doing red wine to add
to the caramel sauce

00:27:06.860 --> 00:27:10.062
and then I'm using from age blanc
to make a little creme for the tarte.

00:27:10.397 --> 00:27:11.775
Here we go.

00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:14.611
He's making a red
wine caramel to make his tarte Tatin

00:27:14.635 --> 00:27:17.536
- and he left the apples big whole pieces.
- Yep.

00:27:17.604 --> 00:27:20.550
So my only concern there
is that the apples get cooked

00:27:20.574 --> 00:27:22.407
before the pastry
cooks too much.

00:27:22.476 --> 00:27:23.720
All right.

00:27:23.744 --> 00:27:25.522
So he's got 29
minutes to bake that right now.

00:27:25.546 --> 00:27:27.112
And that's a 40-minute bake,
minimum.

00:27:27.147 --> 00:27:28.592
- That is minimum.
- Minimum.

00:27:28.616 --> 00:27:29.776
- Minimum.
- 40 minutes. Yeah.

00:27:31.118 --> 00:27:32.962
And whenever you're
gonna do a cake,

00:27:32.986 --> 00:27:37.656
you want to get all of your equipment
and your ingredien all out and ready

00:27:37.724 --> 00:27:39.458
and then you can start
immediately.

00:27:39.526 --> 00:27:41.571
This was a... A big octopus.

00:27:41.595 --> 00:27:44.863
I am taking a trip down
to the Yucatan.

00:27:46.834 --> 00:27:49.579
So we got some charred octopus
that I'm braising in red wine

00:27:49.603 --> 00:27:53.283
and then I'm gonna fry up some oysters
in little bit of cornmeal and coffee rub.

00:27:53.307 --> 00:27:56.608
Uh, I'm making a cornmeal
dredge for these oysters.

00:27:56.677 --> 00:27:58.922
And this is how I'm gonna
incorporate the coffee today.

00:27:58.946 --> 00:28:01.157
So, we got cornmeal,
a little bit of flour,

00:28:01.181 --> 00:28:06.196
uh, some smoked paprika,
and then some dark coffee.

00:28:06.220 --> 00:28:09.988
This is an ambitious dish, but that's
really the only w I know how to go about it.

00:28:10.891 --> 00:28:12.569
So I've braised it in red wine,

00:28:12.593 --> 00:28:14.192
uh, that was one
of our ingredients,

00:28:14.228 --> 00:28:16.695
and then it's gonna go
really hard on the Dutch ove.

00:28:16.763 --> 00:28:19.498
So I'm hoping to mimic
grilling without a grill.

00:28:19.566 --> 00:28:20.732
Dustin is over there

00:28:21.335 --> 00:28:22.812
throwing down.

00:28:22.836 --> 00:28:27.117
He's basically grabbing as many
of Julia's ingredients as possible,

00:28:27.141 --> 00:28:30.453
and figuring out all these creative
ways to sort of bring them together.

00:28:30.477 --> 00:28:33.657
Coffee-coated oysters
adds texture

00:28:33.681 --> 00:28:38.695
to go on top of
a red wine-braised octopus...

00:28:38.719 --> 00:28:42.587
I... he's like a Michelin
star trained chef.

00:28:45.292 --> 00:28:47.504
For my life-changin
dish, I am making

00:28:47.528 --> 00:28:49.739
a coffee-flavored
chocolate ganache.

00:28:49.763 --> 00:28:53.310
It's called a Boston cream p
and not a cake

00:28:53.334 --> 00:28:56.546
because of the container
that you use it in.

00:28:56.570 --> 00:29:00.550
Here's one, here's how it looks
when it just comes out of the tin.

00:29:00.574 --> 00:29:02.619
It's a lovely light cake.

00:29:02.643 --> 00:29:05.811
And here it is all decorated up.

00:29:07.147 --> 00:29:08.525
I used to hate desserts,

00:29:08.549 --> 00:29:13.163
so this is the dessert that changed
that whole perspective for me

00:29:13.187 --> 00:29:15.832
because I also used
to hate baking.

00:29:15.856 --> 00:29:18.857
The question mark here
is the coffee.

00:29:19.593 --> 00:29:21.326
Nope.

00:29:21.362 --> 00:29:23.740
The ganache is just not
coffee-ish enough,

00:29:23.764 --> 00:29:28.345
so I keep putting in coffee
and tasting it,

00:29:28.369 --> 00:29:32.148
and keep putting in coffee,
and tasting it.

00:29:32.172 --> 00:29:34.250
Coffee, tasting it.

00:29:34.274 --> 00:29:37.654
When you go the France and eat
some of these pastri that they make,

00:29:37.678 --> 00:29:40.490
they're all made with this
kind of butter cream.

00:29:40.514 --> 00:29:42.047
My, they're good.

00:29:44.351 --> 00:29:46.529
For my life-changing
meal, I decided to do mole.

00:29:46.553 --> 00:29:49.454
When I was a kid,
it was my favorite food.

00:29:49.523 --> 00:29:51.634
So I would bring it to schoo
and I would get made fun of

00:29:51.658 --> 00:29:54.137
because mole,
it's a strange-looking dish.

00:29:54.161 --> 00:29:55.705
"Told my mom, " No more mole.

00:29:55.729 --> 00:29:59.576
And growing up, I felt like
I had to hide my culture.

00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:01.778
Then I remember,
I was like 20 years old,

00:30:01.802 --> 00:30:04.336
and I had mole for the
first time since I was a kid

00:30:04.404 --> 00:30:06.138
and it made me just realize,

00:30:06.206 --> 00:30:08.106
like, "Wow, I haven't had this
in so long.

00:30:08.409 --> 00:30:09.674
I love this."

00:30:12.613 --> 00:30:16.126
I am making a riff on
a duck con fit,

00:30:16.150 --> 00:30:18.661
except I'm gonna do
a dry rub on the duck breast

00:30:18.685 --> 00:30:23.700
I'm serving that with an
oyster that's a riff on escargot.

00:30:23.724 --> 00:30:28.360
About 25 years ago, I was
living in St. Louis, Missouri,

00:30:28.428 --> 00:30:31.341
and I was, I was broke,
I was absolutely broke.

00:30:31.365 --> 00:30:34.978
And just, uh, to get me
out of my head space,

00:30:35.002 --> 00:30:39.315
a friend took me out to dinner
and took me to a French bistro.

00:30:39.339 --> 00:30:45.388
So I ordered two of the most extravagant
things that I... that sound on the menu,

00:30:45.412 --> 00:30:47.624
escargot and duck con fit.

00:30:47.648 --> 00:30:50.693
It had such a transportive
effect on me.

00:30:50.717 --> 00:30:56.855
I realized that food is like
one of the fine arts in life.

00:30:59.993 --> 00:31:01.237
How's it going over here?

00:31:01.261 --> 00:31:04.563
- It's going well. I'm taking you guys to Spain.
- Okay.

00:31:04.631 --> 00:31:07.632
So I'm making pisto which is
like Spanish vegetable stew

00:31:07.667 --> 00:31:10.480
with some eggs at the end.
I'm gonna saute prawns.

00:31:10.504 --> 00:31:13.917
And I'm made pan con to mate,
which the bread's in the oven now.

00:31:13.941 --> 00:31:17.353
This is a tremendous
vegetable soup.

00:31:17.377 --> 00:31:23.515
It contains potatoes, carrot onions,
leeks, peppers, green beans, white beans,

00:31:23.583 --> 00:31:28.386
peas, tomatoes, garlic,
and just a whiff of zucchini.

00:31:28.422 --> 00:31:30.366
When I had
this dish for the first time

00:31:30.390 --> 00:31:33.436
it was when my husband
and I arrived in Spain.

00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:35.271
We had just gotten engaged

00:31:35.295 --> 00:31:37.807
and we knew that
when I got home,

00:31:37.831 --> 00:31:40.065
I would just never be
the same again.

00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:42.199
Pray for the best.

00:31:49.343 --> 00:31:52.722
I know my time is running, I
have to get my cakes out of the oven

00:31:52.746 --> 00:31:55.291
so they can cool down
a little bit so I can add

00:31:55.315 --> 00:31:57.782
the butter cream
and it doesn't melt.

00:31:59.052 --> 00:32:03.221
For, uh, not having 300 days to
work on it, I think it's not too bad.

00:32:03.257 --> 00:32:05.737
No offense to mother, but I
think it's better than my mother's.

00:32:07.494 --> 00:32:10.540
I didn't know the ganache
wasn't going to set,

00:32:10.564 --> 00:32:12.942
so now, I'm in this crunch.

00:32:12.966 --> 00:32:16.279
It's too liquidy, but I kno
that the flavors are there.

00:32:16.303 --> 00:32:17.514
Okay, here it goes.

00:32:17.538 --> 00:32:19.971
- Is everyone gonna watch this?
- Moment of truth.

00:32:26.780 --> 00:32:29.260
- Oh, my gosh, is everyone gonna watch this?
- Moment of truth.

00:32:30.150 --> 00:32:31.816
That's it, that's time.

00:32:33.754 --> 00:32:35.720
- Oh, my gosh, thank you.
- It's a beauty!

00:32:36.957 --> 00:32:38.924
- It's so pretty.
- Thank you so much.

00:32:40.360 --> 00:32:43.895
Double down this napkin,
and put it around you,

00:32:44.798 --> 00:32:49.712
then we're having
a nice dry white Riesling,

00:32:49.736 --> 00:32:52.615
or you could use a rose,
if you like.

00:32:52.639 --> 00:32:55.907
And that really is a meal
fit for a king.

00:33:00.213 --> 00:33:03.059
Welcome to our first
Julia Child family meal.

00:33:03.083 --> 00:33:06.396
At the end of The French Che
Julia would sit down at the table,

00:33:06.420 --> 00:33:10.767
pour herself a glass of wine
cheers and enjoy the food she made.

00:33:10.791 --> 00:33:14.726
So we really wanted to keep that
spirit alive and do that with all of you.

00:33:15.228 --> 00:33:17.963
Dustin H, let's start with you.

00:33:18.031 --> 00:33:22.467
So I made charred octopus
with coffee-rubbed fried oysters,

00:33:22.535 --> 00:33:25.281
roasted potatoes,
and then a coriander dressing.

00:33:25.305 --> 00:33:26.482
Growing up,
I didn't eat seafood.

00:33:26.506 --> 00:33:28.540
My mother was
allergic to shellfish.

00:33:28.575 --> 00:33:31.588
So I never had seafood, I looked
at it as if it was pretty disgusting.

00:33:31.612 --> 00:33:33.645
Aw, you and Dustin.

00:33:33.713 --> 00:33:35.157
Um...

00:33:35.181 --> 00:33:39.184
But it was my first trip to Tulum
that really kind of solidified it.

00:33:39.252 --> 00:33:41.186
On one side of their
restaurant was the ocean,

00:33:41.254 --> 00:33:43.600
and then on the other side
were their farms and the jungle

00:33:43.624 --> 00:33:46.636
where they're getting
this amazing fresh produce.

00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:50.662
You did such a nice job of
frying this oyster with great crunch,

00:33:51.098 --> 00:33:52.664
but not overcooking it.

00:33:52.732 --> 00:33:54.977
What I really love is the
combination of the coffee and the oyster

00:33:55.001 --> 00:33:58.781
because you've taken two
very intimidating flavors,

00:33:58.805 --> 00:34:01.751
put them together and made
them comfortable to eat together.

00:34:01.775 --> 00:34:02.775
Thank you.

00:34:02.876 --> 00:34:04.654
I've made moules a la Normande.

00:34:04.678 --> 00:34:08.413
It is an homage
to my first visit to France.

00:34:08.481 --> 00:34:09.525
The mussels
themselves are textbook,

00:34:09.549 --> 00:34:11.861
they're juicy,
they're well cooked.

00:34:11.885 --> 00:34:15.632
A little bit of that leek gives it
a really nice gentle onion flavor.

00:34:15.656 --> 00:34:17.333
Thank you.

00:34:17.357 --> 00:34:19.135
There's like such a fine
line between like undercooked mussels...

00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:20.569
- Mmm.
- And then like rubbery mussels,

00:34:20.593 --> 00:34:22.271
and you really like nailed it,
right in between.

00:34:22.295 --> 00:34:23.995
They're cooked
really, really well.

00:34:24.064 --> 00:34:27.143
Well, I feel like I'm at the
table that Julia was having lunch

00:34:27.167 --> 00:34:31.514
with her husband that day because this
takes me there, takes me somewhere else.

00:34:31.538 --> 00:34:33.338
I wanna close my eyes
and eat it.

00:34:33.406 --> 00:34:35.752
Not be interrupted by any of you.

00:34:35.776 --> 00:34:39.222
I just wanna like... and I'm drinking
the broth out of the bowl, it's...

00:34:39.246 --> 00:34:41.379
- It all works for me.
- Thank you.

00:34:41.448 --> 00:34:46.295
So, I made mole to serve on top of a pork
tenderloin that I turned into medallions.

00:34:46.319 --> 00:34:49.132
I think you've achieved
a depth of flavor here

00:34:49.156 --> 00:34:51.367
- and the pork is just perfectly cooked.
- Thank you, thank you.

00:34:51.391 --> 00:34:53.302
You really taste all
of the different notes.

00:34:53.326 --> 00:34:55.193
The chocolate
and the coffee, for sure.

00:34:55.261 --> 00:34:56.673
- The heat really comes through.
- Mmm.

00:34:56.697 --> 00:34:59.208
At first, I was like, "Oh,
gosh, it might be too spicy."

00:34:59.232 --> 00:35:02.400
'Cause I don't do spice, but, um

00:35:02.469 --> 00:35:05.248
it was actually really
well-balanced and it didn't take over.

00:35:05.272 --> 00:35:06.649
- And the flavor comes in waves.
- Yep.

00:35:06.673 --> 00:35:09.107
- Right.
- And I think that's really a sign of complexity.

00:35:09.175 --> 00:35:11.387
When you taste one thing,
and then you taste another thing,

00:35:11.411 --> 00:35:12.622
and then you taste
something else, yeah.

00:35:12.646 --> 00:35:13.789
Okay, Christine, you're next.

00:35:13.813 --> 00:35:17.093
I've made too much food as usual.

00:35:17.117 --> 00:35:18.294
That's like what I do.

00:35:18.318 --> 00:35:20.430
Um, I have made pisto,

00:35:20.454 --> 00:35:24.055
which is a Spanish vegetable
stew, sauteed prawns.

00:35:24.124 --> 00:35:28.671
Everything works really well together and
it's just a really nice satisfying meal.

00:35:28.695 --> 00:35:31.663
The concentration of flavor
that you got in that pisto..

00:35:31.731 --> 00:35:33.498
Is incredible.

00:35:33.533 --> 00:35:35.011
Love prawns
with the faces on it.

00:35:35.035 --> 00:35:36.813
- That... that is something... No, that's something... No...
- Sorry!

00:35:36.837 --> 00:35:38.447
I truly do! That's something
I can handle.

00:35:38.471 --> 00:35:41.673
- You don't cover those up?
- Those have never traumatized me before, yeah.

00:35:41.708 --> 00:35:44.454
- That's good.
- Um, so it was super-delicious and that was right up my alley

00:35:44.478 --> 00:35:45.788
- so thank you for that.
- Thank you.

00:35:45.812 --> 00:35:46.822
Okay, so Dustin R.

00:35:46.846 --> 00:35:50.148
I did a red wine
apple tarte Tatin.

00:35:50.183 --> 00:35:53.852
I did from age blanc in a little creme
on the side with some creme fraiche.

00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:55.865
- There's a little bit of the from age blanc...
- Oh, yeah. So,

00:35:55.889 --> 00:35:58.367
- I'm assuming a little bit...
- A little bit of... pour on the top.

00:35:58.391 --> 00:35:59.758
- Whoa!
- On the top.

00:35:59.793 --> 00:36:02.560
Drama, drama.

00:36:02.596 --> 00:36:04.028
So much drama.

00:36:05.732 --> 00:36:07.443
It's almost like
eating a cheese course.

00:36:07.467 --> 00:36:08.444
And it's not too sweet.

00:36:08.468 --> 00:36:10.902
The pastry could've cooked
a little bit more,

00:36:10.970 --> 00:36:16.474
but I think that this dish is on its
way to becoming something incredible.

00:36:16.543 --> 00:36:17.320
Thank you.

00:36:17.344 --> 00:36:20.211
- Okay, Elena, you're next.
- Yes.

00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:23.882
I made Boston cream pie
with coffee-flavored chocolate ganache.

00:36:25.752 --> 00:36:28.686
This is an absolutely textbook
Boston cream pie.

00:36:28.755 --> 00:36:30.800
The texture of the sponge
is lovely,

00:36:30.824 --> 00:36:32.757
the texture of the
pastry cream is wonderful.

00:36:32.826 --> 00:36:35.193
And that coffee just adds
a little more depth to it.

00:36:35.261 --> 00:36:36.672
If I had one critique,

00:36:36.696 --> 00:36:40.064
you baked two perfect cakes
that then needed to be sandwiched.

00:36:40.100 --> 00:36:42.667
Once you put them on top of each
other, the cream kinda came out.

00:36:42.735 --> 00:36:45.147
So, the look of the cake, obviously,
if you had a little bit more time,

00:36:45.171 --> 00:36:47.350
- it would've been spot-on.
- For sure.

00:36:47.374 --> 00:36:50.853
In true Julia spirit, it doesn't
always have to be the prettiest dish,

00:36:50.877 --> 00:36:53.378
- it just needs to be delicious.
- Yeah.

00:36:53.446 --> 00:36:55.391
Bill, you're next.

00:36:55.415 --> 00:36:58.761
This is my take on
escargot and duck con fit.

00:36:58.785 --> 00:37:03.499
This is a duck breast and
then I've taken the oysters

00:37:03.523 --> 00:37:06.724
and used that as
a riff on the escargot.

00:37:06.793 --> 00:37:08.938
It really tastes like escargot,

00:37:08.962 --> 00:37:10.506
- but an oyster.
- Thank you.

00:37:10.530 --> 00:37:14.499
It's almost like you've invented
you're own style of light French cuisine.

00:37:14.534 --> 00:37:16.279
- Thank you.
- Jaine.

00:37:16.303 --> 00:37:20.817
So today, I baked a gateau
moka, which is a mocha cake.

00:37:20.841 --> 00:37:24.287
When I was a kid, actually,
my mom had a little bakery.

00:37:24.311 --> 00:37:26.322
I loved baking with her.

00:37:26.346 --> 00:37:29.058
But then my dad passed away
a few years ago,

00:37:29.082 --> 00:37:31.694
and I just, you know,
lost my passion for cooking.

00:37:31.718 --> 00:37:36.387
- And when I came to the U.S.
- Sorry, I'm... - No, it's okay.

00:37:36.422 --> 00:37:39.368
I had one of Julia's cakes,

00:37:39.392 --> 00:37:41.326
and I used to bake
that cake for my father.

00:37:41.361 --> 00:37:43.005
- Sorry.
- No.

00:37:43.029 --> 00:37:47.765
And then, you know, it just...
brought back my passion for cooking.

00:37:47.834 --> 00:37:50.246
- I think this is absolutely delicious.
- Thank you.

00:37:50.270 --> 00:37:53.182
When you taste the cake, it's
like a perfect, like, macchiato

00:37:53.206 --> 00:37:55.551
with the little bit
of milk right on top of it.

00:37:55.575 --> 00:37:59.856
The flavor is beautiful,
there's so much coffee.

00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:05.049
And that little bit of savory whipped
cheese on top is such a cool combination.

00:38:05.970 --> 00:38:07.382
we have a lot to discuss.

00:38:07.406 --> 00:38:09.773
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, guys.

00:38:11.311 --> 00:38:15.057
So this week was all about how
one meal changed everything for Julia.

00:38:15.081 --> 00:38:17.482
What were some
of your favorites today?

00:38:17.550 --> 00:38:22.365
Jaine's cake is legit one of the
best cakes I've had in memory.

00:38:22.389 --> 00:38:27.425
Extraordinary, like her personal
connection to it was really emotional.

00:38:27.493 --> 00:38:31.029
Jaine's cake was, for me,
the best thing I tasted today.

00:38:31.097 --> 00:38:34.432
Let's talk about Bill, he was
another one of our favorites.

00:38:34.500 --> 00:38:39.370
The sophistication to take duck con fit
flavors and apply that to a duck breast,

00:38:39.439 --> 00:38:40.816
I think it's very smart.

00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:43.286
- I mean, speaking of smart, let's talk about Dustin H.
- Yes.

00:38:43.310 --> 00:38:45.488
I loved his oyster,
I think his fried oyster

00:38:45.512 --> 00:38:47.757
was probably the best
single bite I had today.

00:38:47.781 --> 00:38:52.428
I loved the way the octopus was
cooked because there was texture to it.

00:38:52.452 --> 00:38:55.364
For me, Dustin R
in both challenges today

00:38:55.388 --> 00:38:56.766
struggled with time management.

00:38:56.790 --> 00:38:58.868
- Yeah.
- He gave us a piece of fish on a plate

00:38:58.892 --> 00:39:00.503
in the sole meuniere challenge.

00:39:00.527 --> 00:39:02.438
This tarte Tatin
was a great idea.

00:39:02.462 --> 00:39:04.674
A red wine apple tarte Tatin.

00:39:04.698 --> 00:39:08.577
All of the flavors were there. I mean,
the flavor of the dough is delicious.

00:39:08.601 --> 00:39:09.978
You know, it's just not cooked.

00:39:10.002 --> 00:39:13.449
The flavors of the apple,
perfect. They're just not cooked.

00:39:13.473 --> 00:39:16.419
I just wish that he would've
done a little bit more multitasking.

00:39:16.443 --> 00:39:18.054
And then there's,
you know, Christine,

00:39:18.078 --> 00:39:21.245
I feel like she had some
trouble this week too.

00:39:21.314 --> 00:39:25.428
The sole meuniere, the small decision
of putting simple syrup on the grapes

00:39:25.452 --> 00:39:27.563
almost ruined
that entire dish for her.

00:39:27.587 --> 00:39:29.387
It's like a classic tale
of doing too much.

00:39:29.455 --> 00:39:31.000
So she could've made a great...

00:39:31.024 --> 00:39:33.035
- That's a good point, actually.
- Pan con to mate

00:39:33.059 --> 00:39:34.070
and called it a day.

00:39:34.094 --> 00:39:37.428
She didn't need to make
this entire stew.

00:39:37.497 --> 00:39:41.544
Don't you get discouraged if the
first one that you ma doesn't work well,

00:39:41.568 --> 00:39:45.069
just keep at it
and you'll get it.

00:39:45.705 --> 00:39:48.217
Today was all about
paying tribute

00:39:48.241 --> 00:39:50.619
to the beginning
of Julia's journey,

00:39:50.643 --> 00:39:52.977
just as you are beginning
your journey.

00:39:53.813 --> 00:39:56.714
The winner this week is...

00:39:58.651 --> 00:39:59.917
Dustin H.

00:40:03.189 --> 00:40:06.669
Dustin H, you really embraced
both challenges today.

00:40:06.693 --> 00:40:09.672
And I feel like
you executed very well,

00:40:09.696 --> 00:40:12.608
but you also took some risks
that I think, uh,

00:40:12.632 --> 00:40:15.066
separated you from some of
the other cooks here today.

00:40:15.134 --> 00:40:17.413
Winning this
challenge that was centered around

00:40:17.437 --> 00:40:20.838
this dish that created a pivotal
moment in my culinary journey

00:40:20.873 --> 00:40:21.784
just means a lot.

00:40:21.808 --> 00:40:23.552
I definitely think
I can win it all.

00:40:23.576 --> 00:40:25.243
I'm ready for Cordon Bleu.

00:40:25.278 --> 00:40:28.824
Okay, so now I have
the less fun job.

00:40:28.848 --> 00:40:31.727
Announcing who's gonna be
leaving us today.

00:40:31.751 --> 00:40:35.620
The cook leaving
Julia's kitchen today is...

00:40:39.859 --> 00:40:40.992
Dustin R.

00:40:41.661 --> 00:40:43.327
Time is what it is. Yep.

00:40:43.396 --> 00:40:46.575
It has been quite a day.

00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:49.478
I faced my like
horrific fear of fish.

00:40:49.502 --> 00:40:51.313
Put a little something
over its face.

00:40:51.337 --> 00:40:53.582
I definitely feel more
connected to Julia Child after this,

00:40:53.606 --> 00:40:55.718
her world,
her kitchen, her food,

00:40:55.742 --> 00:40:57.653
and I think that that
was very magical.

00:40:57.677 --> 00:40:59.688
- You embody that spirt of Julia...
- Yes.

00:40:59.712 --> 00:41:02.680
And I can totally imagine you
in your home with a glass of wine

00:41:02.748 --> 00:41:04.126
and all the ingredients
in front of you.

00:41:04.150 --> 00:41:06.762
With three hours.

00:41:06.786 --> 00:41:09.865
In this moment, I'm
thinking of Julia's famous quote.

00:41:09.889 --> 00:41:11.567
"You never wanna go out
with a whimper."

00:41:11.591 --> 00:41:15.726
Bye, Dustin.

00:41:17.263 --> 00:41:20.431
This is Julia Child,
bon appetit.

00:41:20.500 --> 00:41:22.277
- All right, get cooking!
- Next time...

00:41:22.301 --> 00:41:25.536
All I've heard about pressure
cookers is that they can explode.

00:41:25.605 --> 00:41:28.417
It's creating
a dish for someone you love

00:41:28.441 --> 00:41:30.419
and, for me, that's my family.

00:41:30.443 --> 00:41:32.054
I am in love with Molly Baz.

00:41:32.078 --> 00:41:34.812
I'm gonna take out the pork
from the pressure cooker now.

00:41:34.881 --> 00:41:39.016
I haven't seen pasta made from
scratch that doesn't need to rest.