Julia Child Scares Dick with a Blowtorch | The Dick Cavett Show

[@cathyvanniekerk7526]

I disagree with the comment that she would never make it on TV today. Her quirky personality would be so entertaining. She's like a breath of fresh air .Cooking shows are much more than just the food they prepare.

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

❤️Julia Child ! Unique sense of humour and that voice!❤️🇨🇦

[@TheSingingMystic87]

She’d be great.

[@WhatsInTheFridge]

She's a master, no question. I still watch her constantly. My comment was more about the sad state of marketing and TV executives, rather than Julia herself. She was brilliant and her joy shone through in a way I'm SO inspired by. She taught me how to think about cooking. I owe her so much.

[@NiblingoBazinga1975]

Julia wouldn’t need TV today. She would conquer KZbin and TikTok!

[@WhatsInTheFridge]

@@NiblingoBazinga1975 I hope so! I try to channel her with every video I make.

[@BiteandChiu]

My husband (a trained chef) had the pleasure of spending the afternoon cooking for her for a special event. Julia sat with him as he cooked and she loved trading stories together. What a magical moment he had!

[@puffee3491]

That sounds like an amazing experience!

[@JMarieCAlove]

You’re dad was so lucky to meet her and cooked and sat around and talked like good friends! 😁

[@dickvalentinesillegitimate1059]

That rules.

[@RedSpiralHandTV]

Wow!

[@autumnleaf3667]

@@JMarieCAlove I hope they aren’t married to their father 😬

[@Gravy_Master]

“Are you about to do this now?” “Yup” just as the flame starts jetting out of the blowtorch. She was so awesome.

[@arynrowland862]

Lol, she taught me never to be intimidated by food or preparation. It looks much more daunting than it actually is.

[@1rewd133]

I love this woman. Always have. What a personality. What a life.

[@pamcranston6742]

L

[@notbill08]

It it wasn't for Julia Child - I wouldn't know how to sauté, whip, fold, separate eggs, knead bread, just about every cooking technique there is! Watched her on PBS as a kid!

[@WhatsInTheFridge]

We owe her so much, lol. Her love of the process and JOY with it taught me how to think about cooking and appreciate great food.

[@SDW90808]

Interesting fact: In 1942, she became a senior typist with the Research Unit of the Office of War Information in Washington, D.C., and, by the end of the year, Child was a junior research assistant with the Secret Intelligence Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA.

[@carriee.9712]

I love Julia Child. Fearless to a T. I love that they pay homage to that in the movie starring Meryl Streep but she tackled every hurdle they tried to throw at her. I am loving the new HBOMAX show too. Bon appetit!

[@dlchambers]

Her laugh at 3:09 is perfect. He's running for his life and she's totally unfazed.

[@abigailfolkes1830]

Julia is always such a character and a delight to watch.

[@LoisCandler]

Just love the way she humorously banters with Dick Cavett❤

[@arak2551]

Such an amazingly simple recipe: take two cans of soup, half a pound of cheese, three bottles of liquor, a blowtorch…

[@tinad8561]

Pretty sure the important part is the bottles of booze. Preppers take note.

[@mithramusic5909]

Sounds like stuff you'd take with you when you go camping. Which i think was the point

[@srkh8966]

@@c.v.yardley You lack culinary imagination.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Well, yep ... pretty much. But it tastes great!

[@rixatrix]

Truly a meal to remember-if you can.

[@JanMike9]

Back in a world where there were only a dozen or so channels available on TV, Julia Child's show was a mainstay for many of us. I currently work in a pub where 'The French Chef' would take precedence on TV while Boston Red Sox games were relegated to the radio. Julia had clout, then as now.

[@juliannaking4473]

The new show is AMAZING

[@lauramalek3128]

As it should have been. 💕

[@rightside]

A dozen channels 🤣😂 uk had 4

[@mikehudson8884]

What a lovely lady, she's so laid back and natural. I love watching and listening to her.

[@hippiblue]

I started watching her show at ten years old. At college age, the restaurant I managed, was written up in ROLLING STORE MAGAZINE as the best French Fries in the Nation. She really got me started on the culinary arts skills, even my grilled cheese sandwiches I sold on the Greatful Dead lot, were the best.

[@creekandseminole]

Aww my grandma loved watching her show. I watched it with her when I was a child on PBS reruns

[@seven471]

I love Julia Child. She had such a cool presence.

[@jeffreyfrist7610]

What an amazing lady and personality! I was just a kid when her shows aired. Always amazed. She was ahead of her time!

[@bernie57]

i was fascinated to observe how carefully the significant height difference between Julia Childs (6'2") and Dick Cavett (5'4" I'd guess) was skillfully camouflaged with some sort of platform hidden by the table cloth and careful positioning. It actually could have added to the comedic aspects of this delighted televised encounter! You'll note that they don't stand together. Cavett sits on a stool which is on a platform. Pretty elaborate stagecraft. I think they just should have be open and natural about it.........have fun with it!

[@clemdane]

I almost feel like this hasn't aged at all. Still relevant and watchable today! I didn't appreciate her that much as a child, but have come to love her since then.

[@connieostroha8423]

Truly loved Julia! I could watch her anytime, anywhere! What a treasure! Miss her! 💕

[@michaeltaylor1603]

Oh! Dick. Reading safety instructions. Julia all like "I got THIS!" Now taste THIS! Blows my mind her ease in the kitchen and humor as delicious as her food.

[@glenrichards7175]

wonderful stuff,just learning about this amazing lady,watched the new JULIA show on HBO, then looked her up on wiki,was a agent of the OSS in WW2,worked on a project to repel shark attacks to mines, the product still in use as repellent today. Vale Julia

[@CarollFord2019]

I have never seen this Lady before. She is wonderful.🌹🇬🇧

[@marywatkins6798]

Julia Child was fearless. She could do anything. Very smart woman!

[@pattibrooks1907]

I always have loved watching JUlia Child on TV and she had a good sense of humor and loved hearing some of her jokes !

[@tracyjacoby2382]

😂😂 I loved her!! She loved Dan Ackroyd's impression of her years ago on SNL. Great sense of humor!🥰

[@playme129]

Julia Child is a classic. She would still be the best against any chef or entertainer in the world!

[@patriciamcdonald3884]

😂It was hard to make a snappy comeback to Dick Cavett-but Julia did!!!! 😂😂😂

[@MJ-qb5ph]

I adore her! She is hilarious!

[@mm-yt8sf]

i recall she also had a hot metal rod on a handle someone made for her that she could plunge into a pot of hot water and green beans to bring it back to a boil quickly

[@lauramalek3128]

I remember reading somewhere (likely Wikipedia) that a large part of her appeal was that she made "fancy" cooking simplified to take the fear element out of it. She certainly did that...plus she was just a plain hoot! 😊💕

[@mikesoule1352]

I always hurried home from my after school job washing dishes so i could watch Dick Cavett. It was a great way to settle down and go to bed--- ready to do it all over the next day!

[@ginaskrobosinski49]

That was LIVE for ya back in the day too funny lol 😂

[@plankface]

“Dick, do come back” I say that to my husbands all the time.

[@chnoe5003]

Oh my god! She is hilarious! I wish we have more of her on TV than the angry, swearing type. Makes you hate cooking

[@layouts77]

Watched her all the time on PBS as a kid. Learned a lot from her

[@Vejur9000]

You can tell how comfortable Cavett was around the kitchen. He was afraid of the food, of the blowtorch, and played with his food... instead of eating it.

[@teijaflink2226]

Probably never cooked anything in his life.

[@DelvingEye]

He acts like such a wimp. Utterly distasteful. You can sense Julia thinks so, too. She never makes eye contact with him. I would have shooed him out of the kitchen. She's too graceful for that.

[@TahtahmesDiary]

I noticed that too, definitely juvenile and not just in a comedian type of way.

[@60gregma]

@@TahtahmesDiary I never noticed that about him before, but he's pretty tightly wound.

[@mtracy244]

@@TahtahmesDiary I like his droll approach in this video. This is low key hilarity.

[@lauramalek3128]

My dearest friend's favorite dish is French onion soup - being half-French, it makes total sense. However, I guarantee you she would never go camping with all the "shortcut fixings" for this dish. I DO love Julia and Dick Cavett too.

[@rolandpatterson5090]

Most folks would talk about Julia' s hot plate, but there were a lot of us who use the hot plates in college. She kept it simple and made it taste awesome!

[@elizabethhowe2110]

Love her comment to Cavett about the cheese strings and the blowtorch. He hardly ever was surprised, but he just started laughing. She was just such a treat to watch.

[@iainbagnall4825]

I love when she mentions camping trip and Dick Cavett says "Camping trip?" with the sort of quizzical fascination of a man who goes camping up at his extremely well-appointed 8 bedroom lake house in Tahoe with private dock.

[@copperhousefarm4794]

Julia, would be number 1 on tv , if she was on today! She would put a lot of so call chefs to shame.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

And did, back in her time!

[@dagny8336]

Julia was the pioneer and anyone who speaks negatively about her is a fool.

[@heatherr0420]

I do love watching Julia Child even after all these years, I grew up watching her and one of my greatest treasures is my cookbook of hers. Now it's 2:00 in the morning on a Sunday and all I want is onion soup

[@floris.927]

I mean she almost cut open an ostrich egg with an electric saw ... blowtorch on onion soup is standard ...

[@ellarutledge8052]

I was glad to see this because when I watched Julia Child in the late 60s on a black and white TV I could swear she didn't wear all that make-up like the recent "Julia" HBO series actress does, particularly the bright red lipstick. Here I can see that indeed there is no bright red lipstick. Wonderful show that was.

[@GaiaCarney]

Julie Child is my hero ✨ smart, funny, charming & talented! And tall, very TALL 🤗

[@GrotrianSeiler]

Wow, she is such a legend. Never disappoints.

[@PolGara0139]

Hard to believe she was a spy in WW2. What a career she had

[@robcrisall787]

National treasure to America. Here in Britain her show never made it over which is a tragedy. She would have been so successful

[@pegbutwin7189]

Legend! An absolute legend!!

[@carfish]

She was so charismatic

[@tiffanycurtis4794]

My generation Back when talk shows were worth watching 👏🏾

[@heneralantonioluna8725]

This lovable lady... Miss Ya

[@keetrandling4530]

Mr.Cavitt may have been aware that special scissors do exisit, specially designed to snip off the cheese string!

[@CornbreadOracle]

Somehow she pulled this off while letting the audience know that she realized how ridiculous it was. What a gal!

[@neitan6891]

I don’t know what kind of camping trips she’s been on but I want to go on one like those!

[@lucysweeney8347]

You are so right Neitan.

[@PS-bs8oe]

Of course not, ...I mean...together in a tent after onionsoup?! Come on...

[@BIGSCREENQUIZ]

Sarah Lancashire brought me here.

[@annegreenwood3624]

she is the best loved watching her cooking show learned a lot too another fun video

[@openskies11]

Seems like they're being kind of rude to her, with the laughing and the nasty insinuations. But who's more fondly remembered now, Dick Cavett or Julia Child?

[@Jayce_Alexander]

Both of them are very fondly remembered. And Julia had a sense of humor, she could take a joke. Heck her SNL parody was one of her favorite bits of television.

[@thebaobabs206]

@@Jayce_Alexander Very well said!

[@heresjohnny602]

Julia for being one of the first trailblazing female cooks who whipped up a storm in the kitchen. Cavett for being one of the most rationally minded and charming interviewers ever who was able to create a space for all ideas to be shared without hostility. Big difference between laughing at someone vs laughing with, ever wondered how grandparents are almost impossible to offend while the newer generation is insulted by every inference they find, if you're number two it means you need more important things to concern yourself with.

[@maeshellewest-davies7904]

For the chipmunks and bears. Haha

[@bluekitty3731]

Well the chipmunks eat the cheese and the bears eat the chipmunks, Its the circle of life!

[@artmakerforever3510]

Julia you are just a delight. 💝

[@stephaniestavropoulos1639]

Just got through reading two wonderful books by her:"As Always, Julia." This is a book of letters she wrote, and her very close friend Avis DeVoto wrote each other. Each and every letter, you felt you were experiencing what they were experiencing. I especially enjoyed the "behind the scenes" look on the creating and penning "Mastering The Art Of French Cooking." Another book: her autobiography that she co authored w/Alex Prud'homme, the grandson of "famed" chef, Paul Prud'homme.

[@jacquelineortiz880]

I loved her so much as a kid I watched her shows and just escaped. Later in life I , I just love cooking now.

[@mjrussell414]

I have absolutely loved her since I was a kid, watching her shows, but no, I am not making onion soup on a camping trip. Come to think of it, now I am over 50, I never want to go camping again so it is a moot point anyway.

[@BojanKordic]

2:30 is so funnnyy ahahahahah i loved that! 🤣🤣

[@lynnrivell6600]

She funnier than anything current on TV

[@ashleydaniel3215]

Julia is sooo awesome 👍 She is endelible ❤️

[@justice-jb5ld]

She was so funny, have to love her.

[@sir_i.p.freely3757]

She’s like what’s wrong there sonny you scared of a little dab 🤣

[@pinkzweibel985]

What a fabulous woman xx

[@vikirising2882]

A cross between Delia Smith and Keith Floyd,brilliant how she cracked on with it!x

[@PS-bs8oe]

Dick tried to make a hint, but back then tv was still polite... I mean... a camping trip...Together in a tent after onion soup ;)))

[@MADHAUSMARKALLAN]

I love her!

[@ValMacher]

I saw the original airing, "That's great booze", is as funny now as it was then. Memorable moment. When I was a child, she was my hero!

[@8888-9]

As a child of about 11 in Denmark Cooking shows on TV were filled with Quirky characters. They would turn away from the stove ( 1970 ‘s ) talking - and a tea towel would catch On fire! No fire Extinguishers. Running around filing saucepans with water - throw out the cooking Veggies - total mayhem!!

[@PaulaZF]

Two of my all time favorite people. Who knew Dick is afraid of blow torches? Julia was so down to earth and accepting, the opposite of the “typical” French person.

[@MsShellectable]

She also wasn't French, but born and raised in southern California, which may explain why she was more down to earth and accepting.

[@PaulaZF]

@@MsShellectable yes I misspoke. I was comparing her to the French. I think she was born in my home town of Pasadena and grew up in Santa Barbara.

[@shelleygibbons1065]

Love Julia!!,

[@1944JerriMellas]

Classic❣️

[@ArkansasGals]

Love her

[@ernestkovach3305]

She might not make it on tv today as some in the comments and elsewhere indicate ,but even as quirky, eccentric, and frumpy in appearance as she was , you never know. Talented and one of a kind .She would make it on KZbin however! All the celebrity chefs after her from Batali to Emeril to Fuery to Bordain and Moultan to on and on owe this pioneer of the modern electronic media age a tip of their chef hats ! Bon apetit..

[@H3nry488]

Such a sweet woman

[@AxelQC]

How much camping equipment does Julia bring with her?

[@morrisgland887]

What a wonderful personality. Reverent yet cheeky. Gosh we need so so many more Julia’s today, in this polyester, manufactured, tasteless, gormless woke world of lowest common denominator think !

[@tomcross3000]

Take away “woke” and you’re correct

[@dreamarcher4018]

@@tomcross3000 nah leave it in!

[@tomcross3000]

@Dreamarcher sorry, no.

[@lucysweeney8347]

So well put Morris Gland ! Thank you.

[@kzinful]

Read about her past, the lady wouldn't flinch over a blowtorch. I'm sure she would know her way around the armory.

[@renafielding945]

Two best people

[@skymasterson6504]

That was brilliant! Kudos to J!

[@robricloc5663]

Reading this title out of context gives you a very different idea of what the video could be

[@puffee3491]

LMAO I had to go back and read the title!

[@jillk368]

Hide the taste of the can; that's classic.

[@roraboryalice2187]

I now realize how well Meryl Streep did impersonating her being XD

[@georgebush6002]

I liked the movie a lot, really enjoying the TV version too.

[@ajahnay297]

Omg I just found her show on HBO and didn’t know she was a real person omg!

[@charliebigbear1630]

I miss watching Julia

[@jeffpagan7735]

I'm so jealous of her dinner guests. I wish I could have been there.

[@bookwoman53]

Poor Dick Cavett.

[@marjoriecohn3868]

I really liked watching her when I was little. I'm wondering why an eight year old would enjoy her show but I did.

[@slc2466]

Julia's in the house, and taking it over!

[@evancortez2]

People sometimes forget Julia Child was an OSS (now CIA) agent before she became a famous TV chef

[@Kat.Evangeline14]

Wow ! I am a new fan of Julia !

[@rolandpatterson5090]

Oh, the things that chefs do now with the torch!

[@denisespurlock7869]

I love Julia!