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Julia Child: Celebrating 100 years On the 100th birthday of one of the most lauded American chefs, a look back at Julia Child’s work and the reopening of the Smithsonian exhibit featuring her extraordinary kitchen.
Julia Child with chef Pierre Franey on July 6, 1976. Her first show, "The French Chef," debuted in February 1963. It ran for 10 years and won a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award for educational programming.
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Julia Child shows off tomatoes in the kitchen at her home in Cambridge, Mass. More so than the tools and techniques she popularized, Child's most lasting legacy may be her spirit and sense of humor.
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Julia Child shares a moment with Jamie Stachowski at 1789 Restaurant in August 2002, during a photo op with the staff who produced her 90th birthday dinner. To the left is Ris Lacoste. Other notable Washington faces in the crowd: Francois Dionot, founder of L'Academie de Cuisine (back row); Cliff Wharton, who became executive chef at TenPenh (third row, second from the right); Mitch Berliner, food entrepreneur of Meat Crafters and co-founder of the Bethesda Central Farm Market (second row, at far left); and Susan McCreight Lindeborg (third row, just behind Berliner).
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Julia Child joins Martha Stewart in the kitchen to make a dessert on Stewart’s “Home for the Holidays,” on Dec. 11, 1995. Child collaborated with many other chefs, most notably Jacques Pepin on her shows, including “Cooking With Master Chefs,” and “Julia Child & Jacques Pepin Cooking at Home.”
On display at the Smithsonian exhibit is a vintage photo of Julia Child taping a TV show in her kitchen. The Julia Child kitchen display is reopening after being revamped.
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The Julia Child kitchen display is reopening in time for her 100th birthday on Aug. 15.
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The Smithsonian curators who had negotiated with the 89-year-old icon in her Cambridge, Mass., kitchen in 2001, catalogued the room’s contents, packed them up and created one of the National Museum of American History’s most beloved exhibits, only to disassemble it a decade later for the sake of infrastructure improvement, are reopening the kitchen at its new site, where the museum’s Hall of Agriculture used to be.
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The piece of wood with "Julia Child" written on it was used for pulling baking racks from the oven.
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Three of Julia's Child cooking shows were televised in the kitchen, amid the utensils, objects and art that made her happy.
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Some of Julia Child's measuring cups and utensils used by the chef, a few of which have a yellow "J" painted on the bottom.
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Some canisters are labeled with a simple piece of tape. Child’s French Legion of Honor medal of 2000 and the 1996 Emmy statuette for “In Julia’s Kitchen With Master Chefs” are displayed nearby.
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A fish mold that belonged to Julia Child is on display.
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Keen eyes can now decipher Julia Child’s handwritten label on the coffeemaker and assess the physics of a countertop stone-crab claw cracker that looks like it belongs beside an architect’s drawing board.
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On display are four dozen pots and pans that Julia Child used in her kitchen.
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The Julia Child kitchen is not a walk-through display. It's viewed through windows in order to keep the various pieces inside from being disturbed.
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