Julia Child's Handwritten Recipe
Object Details
- Stuart Hall
- Description
- This handwritten recipe for pain de mie, or French sandwich bread, is from the kitchen of cookbook author and television chef Julia Child.
- Trained at the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, Child brought the taste and techniques of traditional French cuisine into American homes. Her first series, The French Chef, premiered on Boston public television in 1962. Over her forty-year career, she produced numerous cookbooks and television shows, including three filmed in her own kitchen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2001, Child donated her famous kitchen to the Smithsonian.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Julia Child
- ID Number
- 2001.0253.0030
- accession number
- 2001.0253
- catalog number
- 2001.0253.0030
- Object Name
- clipboard with recipes
- Physical Description
- metal (clip material)
- paper (recipes material)
- ink (writing material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 6 in; 25.4 cm x 15.24 cm
- used
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Related Publication
- Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
- National Museum of American History. Treasures of American History online exhibition
- Related Web Publication
- https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/treasures-american-history
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Occupations
- Food
- Popular Entertainment
- Julia Child's Kitchen
- National Treasures exhibit
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_892329
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-063e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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