{"id":2649,"date":"2015-08-14T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macrinabakery.com\/blog\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2015-08-14T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T20:12:50","slug":"baking-with-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/baking-with-julia\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking with Julia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"julia_baking\"<\/a>Happy Birthday Julia Child!<\/p>\n

One of the bakers here at Macrina noticed that Julia Child\u2019s <\/a>birthday was coming up on August 15th and suggested I write about\u00a0my experience filming\u00a0Baking with Julia <\/a>in 1996. It just so happens I\u2019m currently in Boston visiting my dear friend Susan Regis<\/a>, a super host as well as a James Beard Award<\/a>-winning chef so the walk down memory lane is timely in many ways.<\/p>\n

Susan accompanied me to Julia Child\u2019s house for the\u00a0filming of my episode that memorable\u00a0summer day in 1996. Susan, who has presided over some of the most storied Boston kitchens, knew Julia Child through the Cambridge food network. I was glad\u00a0my supportive friend\u00a0was with me because I was going to cook in Julia Child\u2019s kitchen.\u00a0The<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Julia Child’s kitchen!\u00a0It still gives me goose bumps to think about it. I\u2019d done cooking classes before, but not on television and not standing next to Julia Child\u2019s famous pegboard. It was a dream come true, and yet\u00a0I was absolutely terrified.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d met Julia Child briefly back in the 80\u2019s when I cooked at Jasper\u2019s, a great restaurant on the Boston waterfront in its day. I was very surprised and honored when I got a call and heard that Julia Child was interested in featuring me in an episode of Baking with Julia<\/a>, <\/em>the show that would go on to win an Emmy Award and a James Beard Award. Macrina had only been open for three years. She traveled to Seattle, visited the bakery, and loved it. I wanted to do bread, my true love, but they had already lined up several very prominent bakers to be on the show. Julia loved our pastries and convinced me to\u00a0make tarts.<\/p>\n

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When the time came, I flew to Boston and with Susan in tow made my way to Julia Child\u2019s imposing Cambridge clapboard house<\/a>. The house was bustling with activity. There was a prep kitchen set up in the basement and her kitchen was transformed into a studio, full of lights, people, and cameras. There was a make-up artist, the cookbook writer Dorie Greenspan, who was writing the companion cookbook to the show, the producer Geoffrey Drummond, and several others bustling about.<\/p>\n

It turned out that the night before we were to film there were some electrical problems and the air-conditioning had gone out. They\u2019d had to bring in a generator and had hooked up an ad hoc cooling system. Silver accordion ducts poked through windows and out of hallways blowing cold air. Those cameras put out a lot of heat. Even with all their efforts it was still mid-eighties in that kitchen. It didn\u2019t feel like a good omen.<\/p>\n

I planned to make two crusts,\u00a0our classic pie crust, and\u00a0our crostata crust. With the pie crust I would make three tarts,\u00a0a French Apple Tart,\u00a0a Baked Yogurt Tart with Blackberries and Almonds, and\u00a0a Blueberry Nectarine Tart. With the crostata crust I would make\u00a0a Raspberry Fig Crostata. As filming started, we found the dough had to be kept\u00a0in a cooler between takes.\u00a0It was too hot and\u00a0tart dough can be a prickly creature in warm weather. My nerves might have overwhelmed me in this less than ideal scenario if Julia Child wasn\u2019t so graceful. She asked me instinctive questions, leading me along, smoothly adding details to help the home cook. I relaxed in a few minutes.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the day was a blast, even with the hot kitchen. The tarts came out perfectly! I even got to the crostata. Evidently I was fast, and we managed to film more than enough for one show. So I got a bonus half-show that just focused on the crostata. All of the humor and wit and personal connection that you see from Julia Child on the show came across even more between takes. It was unbelievably stimulating and thrilling to be there.<\/p>\n

As I packed up my stuff, tired, hot, and exhilarated, little did I know that the best part of the day was yet to come. Susan invited Julia Child over to her house for a barbecue on the roof. Susan lived in a North End brownstone, four flights of stairs to the roof. Julia Child was 84 years old then, her husband Paul had passed away two years earlier. To my great surprise, Julia accepted the invitation. Geoffrey Drummond and Dorie Greenspan accompanied her. She scaled the\u00a0four flights just fine, took a seat in an Adirondack chair and held court with a roof deck of people, most half her age. She talked of meals and wines, recalling nuances of flavor and special dishes fondly. What a memory she had. I think we grilled pizzas and I know there was lots of great food. I barely remember all that now. What I remember is Julia Child, sitting on the roof sharing her passions, not at all pretentious, incredibly approachable, humble, and full of grace.<\/p>\n

That experience is one of the great memories of my life. The cookbook turned out beautifully. I was so pleased that in addition to my tarts and crostata they included my potato bread as well. It\u2019s so much fun to be back at Susan\u2019s\u00a0recalling that day.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday, Julia Child. You will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Mackie<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch Baking with Julia featuring Leslie Mackie\u00a0 http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2250839787\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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