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

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  • When Julia Child lights the blowtorch, Dick quickly retreats off stage.
    Date aired - 14th March 1980 - Julia Child
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    Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
    His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
    Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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  • @cathyvanniekerk7526
    @cathyvanniekerk7526 2 роки тому +934

    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
      @jamesbodnarchuk3322 2 роки тому +25

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

    • @falsettogod5853
      @falsettogod5853 2 роки тому +16

      She’d be great.

    • @WhatsInTheFridge
      @WhatsInTheFridge 2 роки тому +22

      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
      @NiblingoBazinga1975 2 роки тому +29

      Julia wouldn’t need TV today. She would conquer UA-cam and TikTok!

    • @WhatsInTheFridge
      @WhatsInTheFridge 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @BiteandChiu
    @BiteandChiu 2 роки тому +353

    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!

  • @Gravy_Master
    @Gravy_Master 3 роки тому +347

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

    • @arynrowland862
      @arynrowland862 2 роки тому +6

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

  • @notbill08
    @notbill08 2 роки тому +272

    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
      @WhatsInTheFridge 2 роки тому +8

      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.

  • @1rewd133
    @1rewd133 2 роки тому +167

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

  • @arak2551
    @arak2551 2 роки тому +254

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

    • @tinad8561
      @tinad8561 2 роки тому +19

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

    • @mithramusic5909
      @mithramusic5909 2 роки тому +4

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

    • @srkh8966
      @srkh8966 2 роки тому

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

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 2 роки тому

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

    • @rixatrix
      @rixatrix 2 роки тому +4

      Truly a meal to remember-if you can.

  • @dlchambers
    @dlchambers 2 роки тому +44

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

  • @carriee.9712
    @carriee.9712 2 роки тому +46

    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!

  • @abigailfolkes1830
    @abigailfolkes1830 2 роки тому +42

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

  • @JanMike9
    @JanMike9 2 роки тому +73

    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.

  • @bernie57
    @bernie57 2 роки тому +4

    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!

  • @michaeltaylor1603
    @michaeltaylor1603 2 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @SDW90808
    @SDW90808 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @mikehudson8884
    @mikehudson8884 2 роки тому +8

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

  • @hippiblue
    @hippiblue 2 роки тому +10

    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
    @creekandseminole 2 роки тому +35

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

  • @jeffreyfrist7610
    @jeffreyfrist7610 2 роки тому +14

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

  • @CarollFord2019
    @CarollFord2019 2 роки тому +9

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

  • @patriciamcdonald3884
    @patriciamcdonald3884 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @clemdane
    @clemdane 2 роки тому +8

    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.

  • @playme129
    @playme129 2 роки тому +53

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

  • @connieostroha8423
    @connieostroha8423 2 роки тому +8

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

  • @glenrichards7175
    @glenrichards7175 2 роки тому +11

    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

  • @seven471
    @seven471 3 роки тому +51

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

  • @Vejur9000
    @Vejur9000 2 роки тому +106

    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
      @teijaflink2226 2 роки тому +20

      Probably never cooked anything in his life.

    • @DelvingEye
      @DelvingEye 2 роки тому

      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
      @TahtahmesDiary 2 роки тому +7

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

    • @60gregma
      @60gregma 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @mtracy244
      @mtracy244 Рік тому

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

  • @tracyjacoby2382
    @tracyjacoby2382 2 роки тому +10

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

  • @marywatkins6798
    @marywatkins6798 2 роки тому +30

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

  • @copperhousefarm4794
    @copperhousefarm4794 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @dagny8336
    @dagny8336 2 роки тому +6

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

  • @pattibrooks1907
    @pattibrooks1907 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @LoisCandler
    @LoisCandler 8 місяців тому +1

    Just love the way she humorously banters with Dick Cavett❤

  • @MJ-qb5ph
    @MJ-qb5ph 2 роки тому +49

    I adore her! She is hilarious!

  • @lauramalek3128
    @lauramalek3128 2 роки тому +4

    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! 😊💕

  • @chnoe5003
    @chnoe5003 2 роки тому +21

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

  • @iainbagnall4825
    @iainbagnall4825 2 роки тому +7

    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.

  • @layouts77
    @layouts77 2 роки тому +9

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

  • @lauramalek3128
    @lauramalek3128 2 роки тому +7

    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
    @rolandpatterson5090 2 роки тому +4

    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!

  • @ginaskrobosinski49
    @ginaskrobosinski49 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @plankface
    @plankface 2 роки тому +5

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

  • @elizabethhowe2110
    @elizabethhowe2110 5 місяців тому

    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.

  • @floris.927
    @floris.927 3 роки тому +36

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

  • @CornbreadOracle
    @CornbreadOracle 2 роки тому +8

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

  • @GaiaCarney
    @GaiaCarney 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @ellarutledge8052
    @ellarutledge8052 2 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @heatherr0420
    @heatherr0420 2 роки тому +2

    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

  • @robcrisall787
    @robcrisall787 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @pegbutwin7189
    @pegbutwin7189 2 роки тому +3

    Legend! An absolute legend!!

  • @openskies11
    @openskies11 2 роки тому +53

    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
      @Jayce_Alexander 2 роки тому +15

      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
      @thebaobabs206 2 роки тому +2

      @@Jayce_Alexander Very well said!

    • @heresjohnny602
      @heresjohnny602 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @PolGara0139
    @PolGara0139 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @BIGSCREENQUIZ
    @BIGSCREENQUIZ 2 роки тому +11

    Sarah Lancashire brought me here.

  • @keetrandling4530
    @keetrandling4530 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @GrotrianSeiler
    @GrotrianSeiler 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, she is such a legend. Never disappoints.

  • @tiffanycurtis4794
    @tiffanycurtis4794 2 роки тому +2

    My generation Back when talk shows were worth watching 👏🏾

  • @annegreenwood3624
    @annegreenwood3624 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @carfish
    @carfish 2 роки тому +1

    She was so charismatic

  • @heneralantonioluna8725
    @heneralantonioluna8725 2 роки тому +2

    This lovable lady... Miss Ya

  • @neitan6891
    @neitan6891 2 роки тому +6

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

    • @lucysweeney8347
      @lucysweeney8347 2 роки тому +1

      You are so right Neitan.

    • @PS-bs8oe
      @PS-bs8oe 2 роки тому

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

  • @mm-yt8sf
    @mm-yt8sf 6 місяців тому +3

    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

  • @lynnrivell6600
    @lynnrivell6600 2 роки тому +4

    She funnier than anything current on TV

  • @maeshellewest-davies7904
    @maeshellewest-davies7904 2 роки тому +2

    For the chipmunks and bears. Haha

    • @bluekitty3731
      @bluekitty3731 2 роки тому

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

  • @morrisgland887
    @morrisgland887 2 роки тому +46

    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 !

  • @jacquelineortiz880
    @jacquelineortiz880 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @kzinful
    @kzinful 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @AxelQC
    @AxelQC 3 роки тому +14

    How much camping equipment does Julia bring with her?

  • @artmakerforever3510
    @artmakerforever3510 2 роки тому +1

    Julia you are just a delight. 💝

  • @BojanKordic
    @BojanKordic 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @H3nry488
    @H3nry488 2 роки тому +4

    Such a sweet woman

  • @stephaniestavropoulos1639
    @stephaniestavropoulos1639 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @roraboryalice2187
    @roraboryalice2187 2 роки тому +6

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

    • @georgebush6002
      @georgebush6002 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @charliebigbear1630
    @charliebigbear1630 2 роки тому +2

    I miss watching Julia

  • @ashleydaniel3215
    @ashleydaniel3215 2 роки тому +1

    Julia is sooo awesome 👍
    She is endelible ❤️

  • @ValMacher
    @ValMacher 2 роки тому +6

    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!

  • @pinkzweibel985
    @pinkzweibel985 2 роки тому +1

    What a fabulous woman xx

  • @justice-jb5ld
    @justice-jb5ld 2 роки тому +2

    She was so funny, have to love her.

  • @mjrussell414
    @mjrussell414 2 роки тому +17

    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.

  • @sir_i.p.freely3757
    @sir_i.p.freely3757 2 роки тому

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

  • @slc2466
    @slc2466 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @shelleygibbons1065
    @shelleygibbons1065 2 роки тому +1

    Love Julia!!,

  • @MADHAUSMARKALLAN
    @MADHAUSMARKALLAN 2 роки тому +1

    I love her!

  • @vikirising2882
    @vikirising2882 2 роки тому

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

  • @ArkansasGals
    @ArkansasGals 2 роки тому

    Love her

  • @1944JerriMellas
    @1944JerriMellas 2 роки тому +3

    Classic❣️

  • @renafielding945
    @renafielding945 2 роки тому

    Two best people

  • @jillk368
    @jillk368 2 роки тому

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

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp 2 роки тому +3

    She is so missed...

  • @PS-bs8oe
    @PS-bs8oe 2 роки тому

    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 ;)))

  • @8888-9
    @8888-9 2 роки тому

    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!!

  • @anastasia10017
    @anastasia10017 2 роки тому +3

    julia is a wild woman !!

  • @ernestkovach3305
    @ernestkovach3305 2 роки тому

    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 UA-cam 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..

  • @jeffpagan7735
    @jeffpagan7735 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @PaulaZF
    @PaulaZF 2 роки тому

    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
      @MsShellectable 9 місяців тому +1

      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
      @PaulaZF 9 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @denisespurlock7869
    @denisespurlock7869 2 роки тому

    I love Julia!

  • @romstar
    @romstar 2 роки тому +20

    Dick is so naturally funny 😆 and Julia is a ‘game‘ cohort! 😝🙏😘😭

  • @JasonJames72
    @JasonJames72 2 роки тому

    Omg how awkwardly camp is Julia. And they've just revamped her. Happy days. Bon appetit 🤩

  • @taurusnbr1
    @taurusnbr1 5 років тому +31

    You can tell he's not what Julia would call a "happy eater" he's more of a snob that dips and dabbles and mostly hates everything.

  • @skymasterson6504
    @skymasterson6504 2 роки тому

    That was brilliant!
    Kudos to J!

  • @basilrose
    @basilrose 2 роки тому +2

    Three kinds of booze, thatsa good soup!

  • @evancortez2
    @evancortez2 10 місяців тому

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

  • @ajahnay297
    @ajahnay297 2 роки тому

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