Soup Du Jour | The French Chef Season 9 | Julia Child

[@tentacle1984]

She hummed 'and a partridge in a pear tree' as she added her du jur ingredients! She's so perfectly natural as a person and not a performer!

[@nstuey6974]

I grew up watching Julia Child re-runs with my grandmother, and now that I’ve moved out on my own for school I’ve found myself coming back and watching Julia. Not for the recipes, but the comfort. I still cherish those memories and Mastering the Art of French Cooking

[@wendyellis6402]

As a child I was often home sick with tonsillitis. I loved watching “The French Chef.”

[@denisel2652]

@@wendyellis6402I think Julia was on right before Dark Shadows maybe even on another channel ! I’ve always loved Julia😢🎉❤

[@badger313]

Me too. It's the comfort & nostalgia for me. She was real. She made a mess. No polished edited within an inch of its life glossy fakeness like today's cooking shows that really have nothing to do with teaching how to cook. She will always be the best imo... She & Jacques Pepin will always be my favorites

[@christinegraham2579]

I settled in to watch this late on Christmas Eve. My cat joined me, stretching over my rib cage & she seemed very interested in watching Julia too!

[@michaelcornett444]

I once made the leek-and-potato soup, mashed it slightly as she did here, and then mixed in some veggies and bits of sausage I had leftover. It was delish.

[@badger313]

I make it all the time. It's addictive! Her recipe is the best

[@danthomas6587]

Personalities like Ms Child are rare and we, her audience, are so lucky to have her. She is missed by many.

[@JanPatt327]

Back in the day if i missed an episode of The French Chef I felt robbed. Thankfully technology has brought her to life again! I love you Julia ❤.

[@manflame321]

Leeks and potatoes soup with (much) butter remind make me remember when I was young in northern France...😋😋

[@jejethejeplalq821]

Gonna make this the first chance i get. 18:06 Julia's is just adorable🥰😂

[@Verkrekt]

I should be sleeping because I have work tomorrow at 06:00 but oh well, SOUPE DU JOUR TIME

[@marionclarke2063]

I always loved Julia, she was such a great teacher!

[@Nachoprobl3m2]

I’m watching the series “Julia” right now and WOW does the actress capture Julia perfectly 🙌

[@briannumme9337]

‘If chives are in season…’ Ahhh, the good old days!

[@bryantmatthews93]

Man I remember this lady growing up

[@sprague49]

8:15 You won't find any TV chefs today using those aluminum pans. But I still see them in restaurant supply stores.

[@fathermetalASMR]

18:06 Julia Live & Unplugged

[@Çerūlean9007]

I have an important story. One day I was driving home, when all of a sudden the Lord came to me in spirit. I felt very close to Him. I knew if I asked him to play any song on the radio he would, I guess to bless my faith. So I said "ok, Lord play "Come as you are". I turned on the radio and the song started playing right there on the spot, perfectly… I started getting flooded with chills like a waterfall, crying, and trembling. He stayed with me for 10 minutes in my driveway. until I got outta the car. A couple months after that I started getting amazing prayers answered way more often, because it helped me quit doubting when I pray and I was lined up with biblical instructions. It's 7 years later and I still get answered prayers in Jesus name.

[@psammiad]

She doesn't really explain that soup du jour just means soup of the day, so it's a vegetable base to which you add any leftover vegetables. Restaurants particularly make it to use up scraps and leftovers.

[@nickmagic2447]

I wonder if she did voice acting in cartoons because Marvin the Martian kind of sounds like her😂

[@anonleeleichner3915]

She was a " grand dame"

[@UAUSA-s3u]

[@Leadman1989]

Her breathing is making it hard for me to breath lol

[@RichieRich1234RICH]

Were leeks really that unusual in the 70s when this was made? Shes talking about there being no demand and them being some sort of alien vegetable. I can’t think of any supermarket not stocking leeks in my lifetime. The way she’s talking about it is like fennel which isn’t available everywhere even now. But leeks. Seriously?

[@chrisben3]

I think many Americans just weren't familiar enough with some vegetables to bother with them. I'm sure some smaller supermarkets just wouldn't stock items in low demand. Julia had a great talent not to take anything for granted when doing her shows. At the same time she didn't sound condensending when explaining things.

[@RichieRich1234RICH]

@@chrisben3 yes but leeks. I just can't imagine leeks not being around. In the UK they literally have competitions for growing them. They are everywhere. It must be a US thing.

[@bethotoole6569]

Okay, I’m old enough to have been cooking and watching this show when it first aired. I do not ever remember seeing a leek. Ever. I grew up in New York , out on Long Island. No grocery store I went to ever had leeks. People forget it was a very different time. Most people were cooking from canned or frozen foods. Her goal was to demystify cooking. To encourage people to actually start cooking again. She did more to influence modern cooking than almost any other chef. She was a legend…

[@RichieRich1234RICH]

@ wow. Apparently this came out in 1971 so I wasn’t born then. Growing up in the 80s I remember my mother making potato and leek soup a lot. It was a staple. Never cold as in Vichyssoise. Always hot. She’d even do it in the microwave just throwing everything in a pot after sauteeing the onions and leeks in butter for the first few minutes. I really did not think it was posh at all or something super special. Maybe in the UK leeks weren’t such a scarcity. Fennel was and still can be difficult to get - we’d have fennel soup for a fancy dinner. Anyway how fun Julia’s throwaway comment got us remembering our childhoods and how much supermarkets and shopping have changed.

[@patriciamorgan6545]

​@bethotoole6569 Ditto me, growing up watching Julia's shows in the 70s, and growing up on Long Island (potato country, eastern LI). Though my grandmother and dad often made a similar potato soup, we always used onions. I'm sure the original Welsh version that Grandma made as a girl must have used leeks, but for some reason (probably availability) we just didn't have them. I grew up on a farm, and don't recall ever seeing them at any farmstand, either. Fennel, on the other hand, was always available at the grocery store, especially around holidays. (Lots of Italian-Americans on LI.)

[@pinelopiz2841]

Did she have a respiratory issue? I can hear her having trouble breathing

[@tentacle1984]

It's mentioned in a few books that she is a bit of a 'breathless' performer; I take it to mean she isn't worried about loud sounds when she talks.

[@pinelopiz2841]

@ no, I think she has serious problem in breathing. She must have had trouble during sleep with snoring and apnea. Nowadays she could have surgery and then she would feel great. That is if she had private insurance and they covered the cost. Bottom line, free Luigi!

[@scottgates6993]

Julia Child was a heavy smoker.

[@veedejames721]

I believe she also at one time smoked.alledgely. Julia was a tall lady. It could of been her microphone. Now some shows you hear people breathing hard, sounds bad Julia has a nasal sound Yet with her love of fine wines ect, she lived a full life 😊 Julia had moxie. U don't know how much of her bio is accurate. I just know we Loved her and still do. 😊✌️🕯️💕🦋🌻🙏🌠🙂👋👣 Vee

[@musicful85]

I think some part of it might be a bit of nerves; as a musician with terrible performance anxiety, I often feel like I'm fighting to catch my breath while performing, despite appearing very natural and relaxed. She also smoked for many years which certainly exacerbated it.