At last on DVD&#8212;Julia&#8217;s invaluable series of cooking lessons designed to bring her right into your own kitchen to teach you the fundamentals of good cooking<br><br>Here is the six-part series (complete with recipe booklet), originally produced in 1985,<br>in which Julia teaches you all the fundamentals of good cooking and offers a wealth of her favorite recipes.<br><br>POULTRY includes the perfect chicken saut&#233; with variations, classic <i>coq au vin, </i>ways with chicken breasts, butterflied grilled birds, roast turkey, and a special duck.<br>MEAT: Quick and easy saut&#233;ed steaks, hamburgers, pork chops, aromatic stews, a crusty hash, grilled pork, and majestic beef and lamb roasts.<br>VEGETABLES: How best to cook twenty of your favorite vegetables, plus gratins, stuffed delights, eggplant pizza, and risotto.<br>SOUPS, SALADS, AND BREAD: The three master soup stocks and improvisations, a French onion soup and a Mediterranean fish soup, tossed and composed salads, plus how to make your own French bread.<br>FISH AND EGGS: Selecting fish and shellfish; broiling, saut&#233;ing, and oven-poaching fish; plus the miraculous egg&#8212;alone or in omelettes, custards, quiche, sauces, and a spectacular souffl&#233;.<br>FIRST COURSES AND DESSERTS: Pat&#233;s and fish mousse, tart crusts and crepes with savory and with sweet fillings, two master cakes, and a Tipsy Trifle.<br><br>From deglazing a sauce and degreasing a stock to thickening a soup and unmolding a timbale, all the important techniques that make for good cooking are here. Now, at the press of a button, you have instant access to whatever recipe or information you need. Watch Julia do it and you&#8217;ll be empowered.<i> Bon app&#233;tit!<br></i>