Tipping Our Toques to the True Master
"For years he (but very rarely she), the chef, was considered, an artisan, not an artist. Professional cooking was a career, but it was not looked upon by the public as an honored profession...Now, some twenty years later (after Escoffier), chefs and cooks and American cuisine are indeed news."
from "In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs"
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Julia Child, the woman who helped ignite a food revolution in the United States, today handed her kitchen over to the nation. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History opened a new exhibit Monday featuring the Cambridge, Mass. kitchen where Child filmed many of her television shows -- and where many Americans learned to be less afraid of French cooking.
Julia Child's Kitchen on Display
Famed Gourmet's Actual Kitchen Moved to Washington Museum
An undated photo of Julia Child in her former kitchen in Cambridge, Mass., where three of her many television series were taped.
Workers remove a cupboard from Child's former kitchen to be shipped to Washington.
Child's famed commerical-grade Garland stove, which dominated the kitchen.
Aug. 19, 2002 --
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