Behind-the-Scenes: Twenty Years of Julia Child’s Kitchen

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In 2001, Julia Child entrusted the National Museum of American History with her beloved home kitchen where she had tested recipes, cooked with friends and family, and welcomed guest chefs and viewers for her last three television programs in the 1990s. Our curators, Paula Johnson, curator and project director of the American Food History Project, Steve Velasquez, curator in the Division of Cultural and Community Life, and Dr. Theresa McCulla, curator of brewing history, take us behind-the-scenes of collecting the kitchen from Julia’s home in Cambridge, Mass., and the ongoing exhibition and care of the collection.
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@alexisbierman1429 2 жыл бұрын

I got to help pack up the kitchen back in the day! So much fun! Rayna Green and Nanci Edwards were the leaders of the group that went up to get the kitchen packed out. ❤️🙏

@marjoriejohnson6535 2 жыл бұрын

Lucky you..what a lovely job.

@laurahale9309 2 жыл бұрын

"Including the kitchen sink", priceless!!!

@maryellenmccarthy4827 6 ай бұрын

I actually was a volunteer in college for a Christmas tour of several homes in Boston and I was the lucky one that got to stand in her kitchen. I was in the restaurant business most of my life and I could hardly believe I was there. Several years later I encountered Julia coming out of the nursing home after visiting her husband. She raised her arm up and gave us one of her famous hellos while passing us on the stairs. I looked at my sister and told her it was Julia!

@jelsner5077 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. I love Julia and hope to see her kitchen, someday.

@MEMORIA1316 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for caring about this project. I love Julia! Food is such a part of our family history!

@karenbrown1457 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful stories from the inside. I used to work in the objects conservation lab there and remember so many of our National treasures coming through the doors. It was indeed a special experience. We are all indebted to these talented and diligent folks for their time and forethought. All my thanks.

@DavidHall-ge6nn 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! The fact that they were interviewing Julia on 9/11 is mindblowing. Every American who enjoys food and the art of cooking owes a debt of gratitude to the iconic, trailblazing Julia Child for delivering us from frozen dinners, Wonder Bread, and box cakes. She transformed our culinary landscape and her kitchen is a cultural touchstone worthy of preservation.

@pianodistributors 2 жыл бұрын

LOVE her! Always follow her rcipees and they are amazing! Great video thankyu

@marjoriejohnson6535 2 жыл бұрын

I have been to the Smithsonian many times in the past. I no longer can go but this is one show I would have loved to see. I always wanted a Julia Childs kitchen.

@margaretirish705 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating story.. I did not know about this exhibit- Thanks for sharing! 🙂

@7karlheinz 2 жыл бұрын

Nice documentary, that kitchen was iconic, but for me, her most important contribution (besides two volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking) was not the later television programs with Jacques Pepin and Master Chefs that featured her real kitchen, but the nine seasons of The French Chef, none of which were videotaped in her Cambridge kitchen. They featured various TV kitchen sets, I guess what I'm saying is I'd be more awed seeing the original Boston Gas set in person, (complete with a washer and dryer), nevertheless, I'd love to visit the Smithsonian to see Julia's real kitchen which is ironically now a "set"!