Julia Child's Primordial Soup

by Sara Bonisteel, Posted Nov 5th 2009 @ 1:30PM

Julia Child certainly could make a mean boeuf bourguignon, but did you know she could also whip up the building blocks of life?

It's kind of scary watching her describe scientific diagrams using her chef's knife as a pointer. But it's helpful for all us home cooks that she converts grams into teaspoons. Bon appetit!

[Neatorama via Buzzfeed]

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11-05-2009 @8:44PM Pierpoint Windsor said... How refreshing and such fun to once again have Julia Child pay us a visit with yet one more of her instructive recipes. Julia taught me and any number of others to prepare all sorts of fabulous gastronomic delights. My family were fortunately for me, great chefs. Maternal Grandmother's cooking school turned out more than one successful professional chef-and though I learned much in her enormous kitchen it was Julia who inspired me to attempt her dishes. Even today I am liable to take one of her cookbooks in search of something a bit different or special. However, the above clip is something I've not seen in years. While I mayn't ever avail myself of all the special equipment for the preparation of primordial soup-it is great to once again have one of the greatest instructors delightedly teaching-this time chemmistry lesson. As any homemaker or cook well knows, great meals all require great chemistry. Bon Apetite!
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11-05-2009 @9:47PM John Petsinger said... Why is this so familiar?
I think I remember it from my childhood.
I believe it "sparked" my interest in science.
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11-08-2009 @1:18PM hoolahoop said... Does anyone else think that "she" used to be a "he"?
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11-05-2009 @11:11PM D. Boguszewski said... Brava, Julia!
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11-05-2009 @11:10PM roeline said... Listing to Julia in this clip it just dawned on me. Listening to her talk reminds me so much of the way Diane Sawyer talks!!! Amazing!
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11-06-2009 @1:12AM toothis said... So, she beleives in spontanious generation, the most ridiculed theory in science.
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11-06-2009 @1:35AM Carol Frazzetta said... I am a chef and cooking teacher, for many years. What a joy to see Julia Child again. When I met her, she more than lived up to my expectations. I learned so much from her about cooking and food. She was a joy!

Exective Chef,
Carol Frazzetta
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11-06-2009 @1:59AM Otto said... 11-06-2009 @ 1:12AM

toothis said...
So, she beleives in spontanious generation, the most ridiculed theory in science.

...............actually, she says it is what some scientists think may have happened--Pay attention!
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11-12-2009 @2:27PM RecipeCarousel said... Julia ---- inspirational and to think how she began later in life -- still she offers so much hope and courage

http://www.recipecarousel.com/blog
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