Julienning Julienning Julienne, allumette, or french cut, is a culinary knife cut in which the food item is cut into long thin strips, similar to matchsticks. Common items to be julienned are carrots for "carrots julienne", celery for "céléris remoulade" or potatoes for "Julienne Fries". Trimming the ends of the vegetable and the edges to make four straight sides makes it easier to produce a uniform cut. Trimmings can be used for stocks, soups, purees, etc. The measurement for "julienne" is 12 mm × 12 mm × 45 cm (0.040.08 in × 0.040.08 in × 1.62 in). "Julienne" usually applies to
Julienne Aisner Julienne Aisner Julienne Marie Louise Aisner (née Simart; 30 December 1899 — 15 February 1947) was a World War II resistance agent, working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Aisner was born in Anglure, near Troyes. Her father was a gendarme. She married Lieutenant M. Lauler of the USMC in 1924. They had a son and lived in the United States, Lebanon and Hanoi. Her husband died in 1927 after only three years of marriage, and she finally returned to France in 1933, where she worked as a scriptwriter at a film studio. She married Robert Aisner in 1935, but