This deranged Julia Child aspic creation should be sent straight to hell

[Warpy]

5. Not just boiled chicken, cold boiled chicken

and the only way that's any good is in a chicken pot pie or chicken salad.

The whole thing looked to me like a "clean out the fridge and make it look spectacular" thing, the glaze of aspic and artfully arranged bits of veg adding nothing to it but a little visual appeal. It's a magazine recipe, one that photographs well but that's it.

I lived in Cambridge for a while. She lived in the snooty part and I lived in the slum, but I used to see her out and about. If using Knox unflavored gelatin is cheating, then she did it too. I doubt it was always used to stabilize whipped cream.