Julia

Every episode title is a dish. Across both seasons, Julia names its episodes after whatever Julia is cooking that week on The French Chef — a rare structural gift for a food catalogue, since almost every episode anchors a recipe rather than merely gesturing at one.

"Chartwinkerie" (S2E6) is the one title that isn't a dish. It's WGBH's own coinage for its annual on-air fundraiser, and the episode is about pledge-drive logistics rather than a new plated dish, so it's excluded here rather than forced into a recipe it doesn't show.

Simca is a real person. Simone "Simca" Beck co-wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking with Julia Child, and the show's second-season friction with her over what belongs in the second volume mirrors real, well-documented creative disagreements between the two.

The show dramatizes real dishes without claiming to be the real recipes. Every recipe here is a reconstruction built to match what's described and shown on screen, not a transcript of Julia Child's own published measurements — the same honest standard the catalogue holds every reconstructed dish to.