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The first woman to show other women the primary cooks for their families that cooking could be a creative pursuit as much as it was a duty.

The French Chef premiered as a show in 1963 on WGBH, the public TV station in Boston, Massachusetts, and it would air for a decade nationally on public television from February 11th, 1963 to January 14th, 1973.

Syndicated all over the place.

Not only did she show women that cooking was creative, she also allowed herself to make mistakes that were not edited out or smoothed over.

You know, being from Boston here, too, and I'm sure you're... getting into this with the Zoom book, we kind of had an unusual amount of local children's television produced here.

Aside from WGBH, WCVB, our ABC affiliate, had a show called Jabberwocky, which I think was nationally syndicated for a while.

It was Jo Beth Williams' first gig.

We had a thing called Captain Bob here, which was an old sea captain who would teach you how to draw fish.

Welcome to BPR on GBH and NAPM, Jim Browdy and Marjorie Egan.

We are broadcasting live from the Boston Public Library and streaming at youtube.com slash GBH News.

On Wednesday, we're going to be joined by the Governor, Maura Healey, from 11 until noon here at the Boston Public Library.

Good morning, Jim.

I'm Marjorie Egan.

He's Jim Browder.

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