Julia Child's Kitchen - The Real One, Pegboard and All
Photo: Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
A stop on Washington DC National Mall Walking Tour, a free self-guided tour.
On the first floor, East Wing, at the entrance to the exhibition FOOD: Transforming the American Table, is the actual kitchen from Julia Child's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She cooked here for decades, and three of her television series were filmed in it.
When she moved to California in 2001, she gave the whole room to the museum: cabinets, appliances, cookbooks, more than 1,200 objects. Curators took it apart and rebuilt it here exactly as she left it.
Look at the counters. Her husband, Paul, had them built a couple of inches higher than standard because Julia stood about six foot two. On the pegboard walls he traced the outline of each pot and pan so it would always go back in the right spot.
Next, head up to the second floor for the Star-Spangled Banner.
More on Wikipedia: Julia Child · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Stops on this tour
- Washington Monument
- National Museum of African American History and Cu
- National Museum of American History
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- National Gallery of Art
- United States Capitol
- United States Botanic Garden
- National Museum of the American Indian
- National Air and Space Museum
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- The Smithsonian Institution Building - The Castle
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Jefferson Memorial
- World War II Memorial
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- Korean War Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- White House Ellipse
- White House
- Lafayette Square