Grab A Bite With Julia Child!
She may no longer be with us, but Julia Child is still entertaining us! Julia cooked in this kitchen….and you can see it up close! It’s time for a tasty treat for foodies!
Welcome to Washington DC, the nation’s capital and a great place to see our country’s history up close…
It’s safe to say that The White House is one of the world’s most photographed buildings…and there are many other iconic buildings you can capture as well!
All of these are inspiring to see up close, but some of the city’s most memorable sights take place indoors…
Julia Child Is Cooking!
Enter The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for an amazingly tasty food treat! It’s the original kitchen that Julia Child cooked in when she lived in Massachusetts!
Julia Child’s Kitchen at the Smithsonian is located in the West End Gallery on the first floor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington DC. It includes the entire 14′ x 20′ kitchen from Julia Child’s Massachusetts home – she donated it to the National Museum of American History in 2001.
The kitchen exhibit is surrounded by text panels, photographs, selected objects, and a video: “Julia Child’s Kitchen Wisdom”.
There are never-ending clips from many of Julia’s cooking shows, from the 1960s black-and-white series “The French Chef”, to “Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home”, which was taped in her Cambridge kitchen in the late 1990s – and it looked exactly like this!
Here’s a Quick Look at what you see – sure it’s behind glass but cool nonetheless!
There are all sorts of exhibits, including a cool story about her and her husband and how he was her biggest supporter for doing the TV show!
Folks, I work in TV and this is how we do it!
The iconic Julia Child was America’s most-beloved Chefs, but read her terrific autobiography and discover it was a passion she learned later in life…and here is a hilarious “Julia Child remix, using all of her catch phrases!
I had the chance to see Julia’s original provencal stove, and my wife Alex and I had the chance to cook on it!
We attended a week-long cooking class with Author/Chef Patricia Wells…and Julia gave Patricia her stove when she left Provence…and Patrica keeps it looking meticulous! Read all about our Julia / Patricia “Chanteduc” adventure here!
Cooking in Provence was an amazing adventure…but if you can’t get to France, you can head to Washington DC to see Julia’s kitchen and so much more!
And here is Julia’s famous recipe for “boeuf bourguignon” to make at home!
I ruffled some feathers with this story about Julia last week – because she cooked with brains!
You can see it here – if you dare!
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Very very cool indeed! I love that she settled in Montecito. I knew it well ages ago.
How fun is this? That’s so cool you got to see this exhibit. I heard the floor of the kitchen is papered to look like her linoleum.
I didn’t know that…I know every thing was taken exactly as she had it in Massachusetts for all this years, and when she had people over they tended to all want to sit and eat at the small table in the kitchen with her!
I really enjoy visiting d.c. and would love to see that kitchen in person
Julia wasn’t so well known over here, but it’s great that they preserved her kitchen. We had an equivalent, a strange woman named Fanny Craddock. Best wishes, Pete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Cradock
Thanks for sharing this Pete!
Fanny was very scary!