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{{Short description|American cooking personality (1912–2004)}}
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| name        = Julia Child
| caption     = 1978 publicity portrait of Julia Child in her kitchen
| alt         = Julia Child in front of a stove tasting food on a spoon
| image       = Julia Child portrait by ©Lynn Gilbert, 1978.jpg
| birth_name  = Julia Carolyn McWilliams
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1912|08|15}}
| birth_place = [[Pasadena, California]], U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2004|08|13|1912|08|15}}
| death_place = [[Montecito, California]], U.S.
| years_active = 1935–2004
| spouse      = {{marriage|[[Paul Cushing Child]]|1946|1994|end=d.}}
| style       = [[French cuisine|French]]
| education   = {{Unbulleted list|[[Smith College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[Le Cordon Bleu]] ({{lang|fr|Diplôme de Cuisine}})}}
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| awards      = {{Unbulleted list|Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show Host|1996 ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs''|2001 ''Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home''|Emmy Award for Achievements in Educational Television—Individuals|1966 ''[[The French Chef]]''|[[Peabody Awards|Peabody Award]]|1965 ''[[The French Chef]]''|National Book Award, Current Interest|1980 ''Julia Child and More Company'' | U.S.
[[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]
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  | serviceyears  = 1942–1945
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'''Julia Carolyn Child''' ([[Birth name#Maiden and married names|née]] '''McWilliams''';<ref name="Archive Interview"/> August 15, 1912&nbsp;– August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for having brought [[French cuisine]] to the American public with her debut [[cookbook]], ''[[Mastering the Art of French Cooking]]'', and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1963.

== Early life ==
Child was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams in [[Pasadena, California]], on August 15, 1912. Child's father was John McWilliams Jr. (1880–1962), a [[Princeton University]] graduate and prominent land manager. Child's mother was Julia Carolyn ("Caro") Weston (1877–1937), a paper-company heiress<ref name="pasadenastarnews_child2018">{{cite news |url=https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2018/03/11/such-a-shame-julia-childs-family-home-now-owned-by-caltrans-is-vacant-deteriorating-in-pasadena/ |title=Such a Shame: Julia Child's family home, now owned by Caltrans, is vacant, deteriorating in Pasadena |newspaper=[[Pasadena Star-News]] |first=Steve |last=Scauzillo |date=March 11, 2018 |access-date=December 5, 2019}}</ref> and daughter of [[Byron Weston|Byron Curtis Weston]], a [[lieutenant governor of Massachusetts]]. Child was the eldest of three, followed by a brother, John McWilliams III, and sister, Dorothy Cousins.

Child attended [[Polytechnic School]] and [[Westridge School]] from 4th grade to 9th grade in [[Pasadena, California]].<ref name="pasadenastarnews_child2018"/> In high school, Child was sent to the [[The Branson School|Katherine Branson School]] in [[Ross, California]], which was at the time a boarding school.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker-Clark| first1=Charles A.| title=Profiles from the kitchen: what great cooks have taught us about ourselves and our food| year=2006| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| location=Lexington| isbn=978-0-8131-2398-1| page=[https://archive.org/details/profilesfromkitc00char/page/52 52]|url=https://archive.org/details/profilesfromkitc00char| url-access=registration| access-date=August 12, 2014}}</ref> Child played [[tennis]], [[golf]], and [[basketball]] as a youth.

Child also played sports while attending [[Smith College]] in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]], from which she graduated in 1934 with a major in history.<ref name= "Archive Interview">{{Cite AV media |people=Michael Rosen (interviewer) |title=Julia Child&nbsp;– Archive Interview, part 1 of 6 |medium=video |publisher=[[Archive of American Television]] |date=June 25, 1999 <!--| time: 00:22--> |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3u1ljheBtY |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408175729/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3u1ljheBtY |archive-date=April 8, 2010 |access-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smith.edu/newssmith/fall2004/child.php |title=Farewell, "French Chef" |publisher=[[Smith College]] |work=NewsSmith |date=Fall 2004}}</ref> At the time she graduated, she planned to become a novelist, or perhaps a magazine writer.<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul|last= Chavez|title = Julia Child, Whose TV Shows Taught Millions to Cook Dies at 91|work = Greenfield (Massachusetts) Recorder|date= August 14, 2004|page= 14}}</ref> Following her graduation from college, Child moved to New York City, where she worked for a time as a [[copywriter]] for the advertising department of [[W. & J. Sloane]]. She was still hoping to become a novelist.<ref>Sheryl Julian, "Julia Child, A Chef for Everyone, Dies," ''Boston Globe'', August 14, 2004, pp. A1, B5.</ref>

While Child grew up in a family with a cook, she did not observe or learn cooking from this person, and she would not learn until she met her husband-to-be, Paul, who grew up in a family very interested in food.<ref name="Fresh Air">{{cite episode |title=Interview with Julia Child |air-date=October 7, 1983 |url=http://39ea54ff11b298f9bcaa-1b99eba380497722926169d6da8b098e.r2.cf5.rackcdn.com/2016/FA19831007-C.mp3 |series=[[Fresh Air]] with Terry Gross |network= [[NPR]] |station=[[WHYY-FM]] |oclc=959925340 |quote="Scroll down to 'View online' to hear the audio of the interview." |access-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011141317/http://39ea54ff11b298f9bcaa-1b99eba380497722926169d6da8b098e.r2.cf5.rackcdn.com/2016/FA19831007-C.mp3 |archive-date=October 11, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Julia Child joined the Junior League of Pasadena in 1935 after returning home from college. While a member, she contributed to the League's magazine and helped create children's plays.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thejuniorleagueinternational.org/team-members/julia-mcwilliams-child/ |title=Julia McWilliams Child |access-date=November 5, 2025}}</ref>

==Career==
=== Second World War ===
Child joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) in 1942<ref name="history"/><ref name="museum">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210711200742/https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/julia-child-shark-repellant-world-war-ii "Julia Child Helped Develop Shark Repellant During World War II"]. ''[[The National WWII Museum]]'' via [[Internet Archive]]. Retrieved June 3, 2021.</ref> after finding that at {{convert|6|ft|2|in|m}},<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-cooking-up-spy-ops-for-oss/ | title=Julia Child: Cooking up Spy Ops for OSS - CIA }}</ref> she was too tall to enlist in the [[Women's Army Corps|Women's Army Corps (WACs)]] or in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy's]] [[WAVES]].<ref name="wacs">{{cite book |last=Child |first=Julia |author2=Prud'homme, Alex |title=My Life in France |publisher=Random House |year=2006 |page=85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cKLQO4bgDQC&pg=PA85 |isbn=978-0-307-27769-5}}</ref> She began her OSS career as a [[copy typist|typist]] at its headquarters in [[Washington, D.C.]], but, because of her education and experience, soon was given a position as a [[Classified information|top-secret]] researcher working directly for the head of OSS, General [[William J. Donovan]].<ref name="abc">{{cite web |title=Julia Child Dished Out ... Spy Secrets? |url=https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5579095 |website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=August 14, 2008 |access-date=February 16, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Abigail |url=http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/30/cia-women-national-security-500312.html |title=Women of the CIA: The Hidden History of American Spycraft |magazine=[[Newsweek]] |date=September 21, 2016 |access-date=September 22, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Patrick |first=Jeanette |title=The Recipe for Adventure: Chef Julia Child's World War II Service |website=[[National Women's History Museum]] |date=November 8, 2017 |url=https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/recipe-adventure}}</ref>

As a research assistant in the Secret Intelligence division, Child typed over 10,000 names on white note cards to keep track of officers. For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section (ESRES) in Washington, D.C. as a file clerk and then as an assistant to developers of a [[shark repellent]] needed to ensure that [[shark]]s would not explode [[Weapon|ordnance]] targeting German [[U-boat]]s.<ref name="history"/><ref name="museum"/> When Child was asked to solve the problem of too many OSS underwater explosives being set off by curious sharks, "Child's solution was to experiment with cooking various concoctions as a [[shark repellent]]," which were sprinkled in the water near the explosives and repelled sharks.<ref name=volkman>{{cite book |last1=Volkman |first1=Ernest |title=The History of Espionage: The Clandestine World of Surveillance, Spying and Intelligence, from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 World |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofespiona0000volk/page/160/mode/2up?q=shark+ |page=163 |year=2007 |publisher=Carlton |location=London |isbn=978-1-8444-2434-4}}</ref> Still in use today, the experimental shark repellent "marked Child's first foray into the world of cooking."<ref>{{cite web |title=Julia Child and the OSS Recipe for Shark Repellent |url=https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-and-the-oss-recipe-for-shark-repellent/ |access-date=2021-10-09 |website=CIA}}</ref>

During 1944–1945, Child was posted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]), where her responsibilities included "registering, cataloging and channeling a great volume of highly classified communications" for the OSS's clandestine stations in Asia.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-archives15-2008aug15,0,1415513.story |title=Files from WWII Office of Strategic Services are secret no more|last=Miller|first=Greg|date=August 15, 2008|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref name="cia">{{cite web|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170307163049/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2007-featured-story-archive/julia-child.html |title =A Look Back ... Julia Child: Life Before French Cuisine|website=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]|date = 20 June 2008|url = https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2007-featured-story-archive/julia-child.html|archive-date= 7 March 2017}}</ref> She was later posted to [[Kunming]], [[China]], where she received the [[Meritorious Civilian Service Award|Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service]] as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.<ref name="history"/><ref name="cia"/>

For her service, Child received an award that cited her many virtues, including her "drive and inherent cheerfulness".<ref name="abc"/> As with other OSS records, her file was declassified in 2008. Unlike other files, Child's complete file is available online.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.nara.gov/oss/McWilliams_Child_Julia.pdf |title=Julia McWilliams |website=[[National Archives and Records Administration]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927143746/http://media.nara.gov/oss/McWilliams_Child_Julia.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2011 }} [https://research.archives.gov/description/2180661 ARC Identifier 2180661] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201211227/http://research.archives.gov/description/2180661 |date=February 1, 2014 }}, [https://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/oss-personnel/ Office of Strategic Services Personnel Files from World War II]</ref>

While she was in Kandy, she met [[Paul Cushing Child]], who was also an OSS employee. The two later married on September 1, 1946, in [[Lumberville, Pennsylvania]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/juliachild |work=CooksInfo.com |title=Julia Child |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325002745/http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/juliachild |archive-date=March 25, 2012}}</ref> later moving to [[Little Jewel (Georgetown)|a house]] in the [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]] neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Paul, a [[New Jersey]] native<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/14/obituaries/paul-child-artist-dies-at-92.html |title=Paul Child, Artist, Dies |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |date=May 14, 1994 |access-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref> who had lived in [[Paris]] as an artist and poet, was known for his sophisticated palate<ref>{{cite news |title=Julia Child: bon appétit: Celebrated cook taught America to relish life's bounty |first=Sylvia |last=Lindman |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/julia-child-bon-appetit-nwbna3694953 |website=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]] |date=August 13, 2004 |access-date=September 30, 2006}}</ref> and had introduced his wife to fine cuisine. He joined the [[United States Foreign Service]], and, in 1948, the couple moved to Paris after the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] assigned Paul there as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency]].<ref name="cia"/> The couple had no children.

===Postwar France===
Child repeatedly recalled her first meal at [[La Couronne (restaurant)|La Couronne]] in [[Rouen]] as a culinary revelation. Once, she had described the meal of [[oyster]]s, [[sole meunière]], and fine wine to ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "an opening up of the soul and spirit for me." In 1951, she graduated from the famous [[Le Cordon Bleu|Cordon Bleu]] cooking school in Paris and later studied privately with Max Bugnard and other master chefs.<ref>{{cite news |journal=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/arts/11iht-bookwed.html |title=Books: My Life in France |first=William |last=Grimes |date=April 11, 2006 |access-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref> She joined the women's cooking club ''[[Le Cercle des Gourmettes]]'', through which she met [[Simone Beck]], who was writing a French cookbook for Americans with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]]. Beck proposed that Child work with them to make the book appeal to Americans. In 1951, Child, Beck, and Bertholle began to teach cooking to American women in Child's Paris kitchen, calling their informal school ''[[École des trois gourmandes|L'école des trois gourmandes]]'' (The School of the Three Food Lovers). For the next decade, as the Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeatedly tested recipes. Child translated the [[French language|French]] into [[English language|English]], making the recipes detailed, interesting, and practical.

In 1963, the Childs built a home near the [[Provence]] town of [[Plascassier]] in the hills above [[Cannes]] on property belonging to co-author Beck and her husband, Jean Fischbacher. The Childs named it "[[La&nbsp;Pitchoune]]", a [[Provençal dialect|Provençal]] word meaning "the little one", but over time the property was often affectionately called simply "La Peetch".<ref name="MLIF">{{cite book |last=Child |first=Julia |author2=Prud'homme, Alex |title=My Life in France |publisher=Random House |year=2006 |pages=268–272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cKLQO4bgDQC&pg=PA85 |isbn=978-0-307-27769-5}}</ref>

In his ''New York Times'' best-selling book, ''Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child'', author [[Bob Spitz]] stated that Child was diagnosed with [[breast cancer]] in the mid-1960s. She underwent a [[mastectomy]] on February 28, 1968.<ref>{{cite news| last=Kingston| first=Anne| date=August 15, 2012| title=Julia Child at 100| url=https://www.macleans.ca/society/life/julia-child-at-100/| magazine=[[Maclean's]]| access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref>

===Media career===
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The three would-be authors initially signed a contract with publisher [[Houghton Mifflin]], which later rejected the manuscript for seeming too much like an encyclopedia. When it was finally published in 1961 by [[Alfred A. Knopf]], the 726-page ''[[Mastering the Art of French Cooking]]''<ref name="PM">{{cite web| url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/161490-bless-this-mess-sweeping-the-kitchen-with-julia-child/| title=Bless This Mess: Sweeping the Kitchen with Julia Child| website=[[PopMatters]]| date=August 13, 2012| first=J.C.| last=Maçek III}}</ref> was a best-seller and received critical acclaim that derived in part from the American interest in French culture in the early 1960s. Lauded for its helpful illustrations and precise attention to detail, and for making fine cuisine accessible, the book is still in print and is considered a seminal culinary work. Following this success, Child wrote magazine articles and a regular column for ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' newspaper. She would go on to publish nearly twenty titles under her name and with others. Many, though not all, were related to her television shows. Her last book was the autobiographical ''[[My Life in France]]'', published posthumously in 2006 and written with her grandnephew, [[Alex Prud'homme]]. The book recounts Child's life with her husband, [[Paul Cushing Child]], in [[Aftermath of World War II#France|postwar]] France.

===''The French Chef'' and related books===
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A 1961 appearance on a book review show on what was then the [[National Educational Television]] (NET) station of Boston, [[WGBH-TV]] (now a major [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]] station),<ref>"Boston PBS Station WGBH a Little Giant," ''(Northampton, Massachusetts) Hampshire Gazette'', March 3, 1980, p. 11.</ref>  led to the inception of her first television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to cook an omelette. ''[[The French Chef]]'' debuted as a summer pilot series, on July 26, 1962.<ref>"Today on TV," ''Boston Globe'', July 26, 1962, p. 16.</ref> This led to the program becoming a regular series, beginning on February 11, 1963,<ref>"Today on TV," ''Boston Globe'', February 11, 1963, p. 22.</ref> on [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]], where it was immediately successful. The show ran nationally for ten years and won [[Peabody Award|Peabody]] and [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] Awards, including the first Emmy award for an educational program. Though she was not the first television cook, Child was the most widely seen.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} She attracted the broadest audience with her cheery enthusiasm, distinctively warbly voice, and unpatronizing, unaffected manner. In 1972, ''The French Chef'' became the first television program to be [[close captioning#Terminology|captioned]] for the [[deaf]], using the preliminary technology of open-captioning.

Child's second book, ''The French Chef Cookbook,'' was a collection of the [[recipes]] she had demonstrated on the show. It was soon followed in 1970 by ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two,'' again in collaboration with Simone Beck, but not with Louisette Bertholle, with whom the professional relationship had ended. Child's fourth book, ''From Julia Child's Kitchen,'' was illustrated with her husband's photographs and documented the color series of ''The French Chef,'' as well as an extensive library of kitchen notes compiled by Child during the course of the show.<ref>{{cite book| title=From Julia Child's kitchen| last=Julia| first=Child| others=Child, Paul, 1902–1994, Walton, Albie| year=1981| isbn=978-0-1404-6371-2| location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England| oclc=877067411}}</ref>

=== Impact on American households ===
Child had a large impact on American households and [[housewives]]. Because of the technology in the 1960s, the show was unedited, causing her blunders to appear in the final version and ultimately lend "authenticity and approachability to television."<ref>Toby Miller. "Screening Food: French Cuisine and the Television Palate." In French Food: On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture. P. 224</ref> According to Toby Miller in "Screening Food: French Cuisine and the Television Palate," one mother he spoke to said that sometimes "all that stood between me and insanity was hearty Julia Child" because of Child's ability to soothe and transport her. In addition, Miller notes that Child's show began before the [[feminist movement]] of the 1960s, which meant that the issues housewives and women faced were somewhat ignored on television.<ref>{{cite book| first=Toby| last=Miller| title=Screening Food: French Cuisine and the Television Palate| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vYCkwExuonQC&q=toby+miller<!-- | work=In French Food: On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture -->| date=May 13, 2013| page=226| publisher=Routledge| isbn=978-1-1353-4711-6}}</ref>

===Later career===
[[File:Julie child kitchen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Julia Child's kitchen]] at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History]]
In the 1970s and 1980s, she was the star of numerous television programs, including ''Julia Child & Company'', ''Julia Child & More Company'', and ''Dinner at Julia's''. For the 1979 book ''Julia Child and More Company'', she won a [[National Book Award]] in [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Current|category Current Interest]].<ref name=nba1980>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1980 "National Book Awards&nbsp;– 1980"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-09. <br />There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.</ref> In 1980, Child started appearing regularly on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Good Morning America]]''.<ref>{{citation |title=The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts |date=May 8, 2022 |url=https://juliachildfoundation.org/1980-2/ |access-date=May 31, 2022 |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630125303/https://juliachildfoundation.org/1980-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1981, she founded the [[American Institute of Wine & Food]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aiwf.org/site/who-we-are.html |title=American Institute of Wine and Food |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100222200422/http://www.aiwf.org/site/who-we-are.html |archive-date=February 22, 2010}}</ref> with vintners [[Robert Mondavi]] and [[Richard Graff]], and others, to "advance the understanding, appreciation and quality of wine and food," a pursuit she had already begun with her books and television appearances. In 1989, she published what she considered her magnum opus, a book and instructional video series collectively entitled ''[[The Way To Cook]]''.

During the [[HIV/AIDS in the United States|AIDS crisis]] of the 1980s, Child went from holding [[homophobic]] views to being a passionate AIDS activist, triggered by a close associate succumbing to AIDS.<ref>{{cite news| title=Dining on Arena Floor for AIDS Benefit| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/26/us/dining-on-arena-floor-for-aids-benefit.html| first=Marian| last=Burros| author-link=Marian Burros| date=September 26, 1988| newspaper=The New York Times| department=B| page=4| quote=But the chefs and dinner committee co-chairmen were the heroes of the day and were introduced at the end of the meal by Julia Child, the woman who made cooking fashionable in America. ''It's a wonderful gaggle of chefs,'' said Mrs. Child as the audience cheered and chanted ''Julia, Julia, Julia.''| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Just a Pinch of Prejudice| url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2007/04/02/just-a-pinch-of-prejudice| first=Laura| last=Shapiro| author-link=Laura Shapiro| date=April 2, 2007| magazine=[[Boston (magazine)|Boston]]| quote=...she found homosexuality outlandish—not immoral, and certainly not to be criminalized, but a rude disruption in the natural order of things.| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Nora Ephron: Stirring the Pot| url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/film/2009/08/07/stirring-pot#article-content| first=Brandon| last=Voss| author-link=Brandon Voss| date=August 7, 2009| magazine=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]| quote=I believe that Julia Child was homophobic out of ignorance, but she became very good friends with lots of the gay men in the food business and forgave them all for being in the food business.| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title='Julia' Review: Glossy, Surface-Level Julia Child Documentary Sticks to a Familiar Recipe| url=https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/julia-review-julia-child-1235055307| first=Guy| last=Lodge| date=September 3, 2021| magazine= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]| quote=It's mentioned, too, that she held homophobic beliefs prior to becoming an AIDS activist in the 1980s, before the subject is swiftly dropped in favor of further generic "food is love" appraisals from her acolytes.| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref>

In the mid-1990s, as part of her work with the American Institute of Wine and Food, Child became increasingly concerned about children's food education.

She starred in four more series in the 1990s that featured guest chefs: ''Cooking with Master Chefs'', ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs'', ''[[Baking with Julia]]'', and ''[[Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home]]''. She collaborated with [[Jacques Pépin]] many times for television programs and cookbooks. All of Child's books during this time stemmed from the television series of the same names.

Child's use of ingredients like butter and cream has been questioned by food critics and modern-day nutritionists. She addressed these criticisms throughout her career, predicting that a "fanatical fear of food" would take over the country's dining habits, and that focusing too much on nutrition takes the pleasure from enjoying food.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/garden/savoring-the-world-according-to-julia.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Savoring the World According to Julia| first=Molly| last=O'Neill| date=October 11, 1989| url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24julia.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=After 48 Years, Julia Child Has a Big Best Seller, Butter and All| first=Stephanie| last=Clifford| date=August 23, 2009| url-access=subscription}}</ref> In a 1990 interview, Child said, "Everybody is overreacting. If fear of food continues, it will be the death of [[gastronomy]] in the United States. Fortunately, the French don't suffer from the same hysteria we do. We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/20/garden/julia-child-boiling-answers-her-critics.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Julia Child Boiling, Answers Her Critics| first=Carol| last=Lawson| date=June 19, 1990| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

[[Julia Child's kitchen]], designed by her husband, was the setting for three of her television shows. It is now on display at the [[National Museum of American History]] in Washington, D.C. Beginning with ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs,'' the Childs' home kitchen in Cambridge was fully transformed into a functional set, with TV-quality lighting, three cameras positioned to catch all angles in the room, and a massive center island with a gas stovetop on one side and an electric stovetop on the other, but leaving the rest of the Childs' appliances alone, including "my wall oven with its squeaking door."<ref>{{cite book |title=In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs |last1=Child |first1=Julia |last2=Barr |first2=Nancy Verde |year=1995 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0-6794-3896-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/injuliaskitchenw0000chil/page/n15/mode/2up?q=squeaking+door |page=17 |chapter=Acknowledgments}}</ref> This kitchen backdrop hosted nearly all of Child's 1990s television series.

==Later years==
[[File:Julia Child 1994.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Child in 1994]]
After her friend [[Simone Beck]] died in 1991 at the age of 87, Child relinquished [[La Pitchoune]] after a month-long stay in June 1992 with her family, her niece, Phila, and close friend and biographer [[Noël Riley Fitch]]. She turned the keys over to Jean Fischbacher's sister, just as she and Paul had promised nearly 30 years earlier. That year, Child spent five days in Sicily at the invitation of Regaleali Winery. American journalist [[Bob Spitz]] spent a brief time with Child during that period while he was researching and writing his work then titled ''History of Eating and Cooking in America''. In 1993, Child voiced Dr. Juliet Bleeb in the animated film, ''[[We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)|We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story]]''.

Spitz took notes and made many recordings of his conversations with Child, and these later formed the basis of a secondary biography of Child, published August 7, 2012 (Knopf), five days before the centennial of her birth.<ref name="dearie">{{cite book| last=Spitz| first=Bob| title=Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child| publisher=[[Vintage Books]]| date=April 23, 2013| isbn=978-0-307-47341-7| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307473417}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/biography-reveals-insecurities-plagued-julia-child/ |title=Biography reveals insecurities plagued Julia Child |website=[[CTV News]] |date=August 7, 2012}}</ref> Paul Child, who was ten years older than his wife, died in 1994 after living in a nursing home for five years following a series of strokes.<ref name="MLIF2">{{cite book| last=Child| first=Julia| author2=Prud'homme, Alex| title=My Life in France| publisher=Random House| year=2006| pages=329–333| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cKLQO4bgDQC&pg=PA85| isbn=978-0-307-27769-5}}</ref>

In 2001, Child moved to a retirement community, donating her house and office to Smith College, which later sold the house.<ref>{{cite press release| url=http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/01-096.html| title=Gift from Julia Child Spurs Construction of First Campus Center at her Alma Mater, Smith College| publisher=Smith College| date=May 6, 2002| access-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref>

She donated her kitchen, which her husband had designed with high counters to accommodate her height, and which served as the set for three of her television series, to the [[Smithsonian]]'s [[National Museum of American History]], where it is now on display.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/julia-childs-kitchen| title=Julia Child's Kitchen| website=National Museum of American History| date=March 14, 2012| access-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref> Her copper pots and pans were on display at [[Copia (museum)|Copia]] in [[Napa, California]], until August 2009 when they were reunited with her kitchen at the National Museum of American History in [[Washington, D.C.]]

==Death==
Child died of [[renal failure|kidney failure]] in [[Montecito, California]], on August 13, 2004, two days before her 92nd birthday.<ref>{{cite news| first=Karola| last=Saekel| title=TV's French chef taught us how to cook with panache| url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/JULIA-CHILD-1912-2004-TV-s-French-chef-taught-2734025.php| newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]| date=August 14, 2004| access-date=December 14, 2020}}</ref> She ended her last book, ''[[My Life in France]]'', with "...&nbsp;thinking back on it now reminds that the pleasures of the table, and of life, are infinite&nbsp;— toujours bon appétit!"<ref name="MLIF2" />

==Legacy==
===The Julia Child Foundation===
In 1995, Child established The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, a private charitable foundation to make grants to further her life's work. The Foundation, originally set up in Massachusetts, later moved to [[Santa Barbara, California]], where it is now headquartered. Inactive until after Julia's death in 2004, the Foundation makes grants to other nonprofits.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome |url=http://juliachildfoundation.org/ |website=The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts |access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref> The grants support primarily gastronomy, the culinary arts, and the further development of the professional food world, all matters of paramount importance to Julia Child during her lifetime. The Foundation's website provides a dedicated page listing the names of grant recipients with a description of the organization and the grant provided by the Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grants |url=http://juliachildfoundation.org/grants.html |website=The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts |access-date=December 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909120257/http://juliachildfoundation.org/grants.html |archive-date=September 9, 2013}}</ref> One of the grant recipients is [[Heritage Radio Network]] which covers the world of food, drink, and agriculture.

Beyond making grants, the Foundation was also established to protect Child's legacy and intellectual property rights. Many of these rights are jointly held with other organizations like her publishers and the Schlesinger Library at [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study|The Radcliffe Institute]] at [[Harvard University]]. The Foundation has been active in protecting these posthumous rights. Child was opposed to endorsements, and the Foundation follows a similar policy regarding the use of her name and image for commercial purposes.<ref>{{cite news| title=Legal battle erupts over Julia Child images used in Thermador ads| url=https://www.latimes.com/food/la-xpm-2012-aug-28-la-dd-legal-battle-erupts-over-julia-child-images-used-in-thermador-ads-20120828-story.html| access-date=March 20, 2022| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=August 28, 2012}}</ref>

===Tributes and homages===
[[File:Julia-child-rose.jpg|thumb|The [[Julia Child Rose]] [[cultivar]] is known for its yellow blooms.]]
The [[Julia Child rose]], known in the UK as the "Absolutely Fabulous" rose, is a golden butter/gold [[Floribunda (rose)|floribunda rose]] named after Child.<ref>{{cite web| title=Rosa Julia Child| access-date=April 11, 2022| url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/293768/i-rosa-i-font-face-times-new-roman-julia-child-font-sup-(pbr)-sup/details| website=[[Royal Horticultural Society]]}}</ref><ref name=chef>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/arts/22rose.html| title=Romancing the Rose in Its Infinite Splendor| first=Glenn| last=Collins| date=June 22, 2007| newspaper=The New York Times| url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rose Trials Palmerston North, New Zealand |date=December 4, 2011 |website=[[World Federation of Rose Societies]] |access-date=December 16, 2011 |url=http://www.worldrose.org/trials/2011/palmerston/palmerston1.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422165635/http://www.worldrose.org/trials/2011/palmerston/palmerston1.asp |archive-date=April 22, 2012}}</ref>

The exhibits in the West Wing (1 West) of the [[National Museum of American History]] address science and innovation. They include ''Bon Appétit! Julia Child's Kitchen.''

On September 26, 2014, the [[U.S. Postal Service]] issued 20 million copies of the "Celebrity Chefs Forever" stamp series, which featured portraits by Jason Seiler of five American chefs: Child, [[Joyce Chen (chef)|Joyce Chen]], [[James Beard]], [[Edna Lewis]], and [[Felipe Rojas-Lombardi]].<ref>{{cite press release| url=http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14_050.htm| title=Five Celebrity Chefs Immortalized On Limited Edition Forever Stamps| date=September 26, 2014| publisher=United States Postal Service| access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref>

[[File:SmithCollegeCampusCenter.jpg|thumb|The Julia McWilliams Child '34 Campus Center at Smith College]] Smith College used the proceeds from the sale of Child's house in Cambridge to partially fund an architecturally dramatic campus center that opened in 2003. On November 17, 2022, it honored her by naming it the Julia McWilliams Child '34 Campus Center.<ref>{{cite news |title=Smith College Campus Center to be Named in Honor of Julia McWilliams Child '34 |url=https://www.smith.edu/news/2022-julia-child-campus-center-naming |access-date=November 17, 2022 |publisher=Smith College |date=November 17, 2022}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
On November 19, 2000, Child was made a [[Knight]] of [[France]]'s [[Legion of Honor]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Julia Child| website=[[CBS News]]| date=August 13, 2004| language=en| url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/julia-child/| access-date=August 20, 2021| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820131351/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/julia-child/| archive-date=August 20, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=For a Cooking Legend, the Ultimate Dinner Was Served| first=Carey| last=Goldberg| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/25/us/public-lives-for-a-cooking-legend-the-ultimate-dinner-was-served.html| newspaper=The New York Times| date=November 25, 2000| access-date=November 12, 2006| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820105259/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/25/us/public-lives-for-a-cooking-legend-the-ultimate-dinner-was-served.html| archive-date=August 20, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia| title=Profile: "Julia Child"| url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Child| encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]| access-date=November 13, 2006| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820104311/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Child| archive-date=August 20, 2021}}</ref> She was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2000.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web| title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter C| url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterC.pdf| website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences| access-date=June 12, 2011}}</ref> She was awarded the U.S. [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 2003. She received [[honorary doctorate]]s from [[Harvard University]], [[Johnson & Wales University]] (1995), [[Smith College]] (her alma mater), [[Brown University]] (2000),<ref>{{cite press release| title=Brown will award 10 honorary degrees at Commencement May 29| publisher=Brown University News Service| date=May 24, 2000| url=https://brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1999-00/99-130.html| access-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref> and several others. In 2007, Child was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/julia-child/| website=National Women's Hall of Fame| title=Julia Child| access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref>

===Awards===
* 1965: Peabody Award for Personal Award for ''The French Chef''
* 1966: Emmy for Achievements in Educational Television- Individuals for ''The French Chef''
* 1980: U.S. National Book Awards for Current Interest (hardcover) for ''Julia Child and More Company''<ref name=nba1980/>
* 1996: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show Host for ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs''
* 2001: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show Host for ''Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home''

===Nominations===
* 1972: Emmy for Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement&nbsp;– General Programming for ''The French Chef''
* 1994: Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series for ''Cooking with Master Chefs''
* 1997: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show Host for ''Baking with Julia''
* 1999: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show Host for ''Baking with Julia''
* 2000: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show Host for ''Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home''

==In popular culture==
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Child was a favorite of audiences from the moment of her television debut on public television in 1963, and she was a familiar part of American culture and the subject of numerous references, including numerous parodies in television and radio programs and skits. Her great success on air may have been tied to her refreshingly pragmatic approach to the genre, "I think you have to decide who your audience is. If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody. My audience is people who like to cook, who want to really learn how to do it."

In 1996, Child was ranked No. 46 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.<ref>{{cite journal |year=1996 |title=Special Collectors' Issue: 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time |journal=[[TV Guide]] |issue=December 14–20 |url=http://www.amiannoying.com/(S(ilbe3io1eaeucg5vjnkcwz1e))/collection.aspx?collection=1194 |access-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref>

===On stage===
* [[Jean Stapleton]] portrayed Child in a 1989 one-woman short musical play, ''Bon Appétit!'', based on one of Child's televised cooking lessons, with music by American opera composer Lee Hoiby. The title derived from her famous TV sign-off "Bon appétit!"<ref>{{cite news| last1=Burros| first1=Marian| title=De Gustibus; The Singing Chef: Jean Stapleton Plays Julia Child| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/08/garden/de-gustibus-the-singing-chef-jean-stapleton-plays-julia-child.html| access-date=August 16, 2016| newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 8, 1989| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

===In film===
* A film titled ''Primordial Soup With Julia Child'' was on display at the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Air and Space Museum]]'s ''Life in the Universe'' gallery from 1976 until the gallery closed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Julia Child and the Primordial Soup|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/julia-child-and-the-primordial-soup-35465592/|website=Smithsonian Magazine|date=September 22, 2010}}</ref>
* Produced by WGBH, a one-hour feature documentary, ''Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef'', was aired as the first episode of the 18th season of the PBS series ''[[American Masters]]'' (2004). The film combined archival material of Child with current footage from those who influenced and were influenced by her life and work.<ref>{{cite web| first=Marilyn| last=Mellowes| title=Julia Child: About Julia Child| url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/julia-child-about-julia-child/555/| series=[[American Masters]]| website=[[PBS]]| date=June 15, 2005| access-date=May 13, 2009}}</ref>
* ''[[Julie & Julia]]'' (2009) is a film adapted by [[Nora Ephron]] from Child's memoir ''My Life in France'' and from Julie Powell's memoir about cooking all the recipes in ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' in  one year. [[Meryl Streep]] played Child. Streep won a [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]] for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress&nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical or Comedy]].
* ''Keep On Cooking&nbsp;– Julia Child Remixed'' (2012): A video produced for PBS by musician and filmmaker [[John Boswell (musician)|John D. Boswell]] as part of the ''PBS Icons Remixed'' series in commemoration of Child's 100th birthday. Child's voice is [[auto-tune]]d to a melody derived from vocal samples, with synchronized video clips from Child's various television series.
* ''[[Julia (2021 film)|Julia]]'' (2021) is a documentary, which chronicles Child's life. It was directed and produced by Julie Cohen and [[Betsy West]].

===On television===
* Child was the inspiration for [[Judy Graubart]]'s character "Julia Grownup," hostess of the parody cooking show ''Here's Cooking At You,'' on the [[Children's Television Workshop]] program, ''[[The Electric Company]],'' during its transmissions from 1971 to 1977. 
* In 1978, Child and [[Jacques Pépin]] were guests on the [[NBC]] [[talk show]] ''[[The Tomorrow Show|Tomorrow with Tom Snyder]].''  The program was to include a segment with the two chefs preparing food.  Before taping the show, Child borrowed Pépin's knife to cut something and accidentally sliced her finger.<ref name="Mock">{{cite web |author=Mock, Nancy |title=What Julia Child Really Thought About Dan Aykroyd's SNL Skit |work=Mashed |date=November 17, 2021 |url=https://www.mashed.com/659273/what-julia-child-really-thought-about-dan-ackroyds-snl-skit/ |accessdate=November 16, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Moskin">{{cite news |author=Moskin, Julia |title=Thanksgiving, the Julia Child Way |work=The New York Times |date=November 16, 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/dining/julia-child-thanksgiving.html |accessdate=November 16, 2023}}</ref>  [[Tom Snyder]] was horrified that Child had injured herself, but Child insisted on continuing the program with her bandaged finger.<ref name="Faillance">{{cite web |author=Faillance, Adrienne |title=The Interviews: Jacques Pépin: Cooking show pioneer Jacques Pépin talks cooking, Child, and cut fingers |url=https://www.emmys.com/news/foundation-archive/interviews-jacques-pepin |accessdate=November 16, 2023 |date=October 3, 2018 |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation |work=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Interviews}}</ref> Child told Snyder that, during the taping, Pépin would do the cooking, and Child would taste the dishes.<ref name="Faillance"/> Although Child did not want the television audience to know about her injury, during the taping, Snyder asked Child about her cut finger.<ref name="Crawford Smith">{{cite web  |author=Smith, Crawford |title=Jacques Pépin Recounts The Time Julia Child Cut Herself With His Knife On Live TV - Exclusive |url=https://www.tastingtable.com/1027275/jacques-pepin-recounts-the-time-julia-child-cut-herself-with-his-knife-on-live-tv-exclusive/ |work=Tasting Table |date=September 27, 2022 |accessdate=November 16, 2023}}</ref> After the show, Pépin and Child went to the hospital, where Child received sutures on her sliced finger.<ref name="Mock"/>  Afterwards, Child and Pépin dined at [[L'Ermitage (restaurant)|L'Ermitage]].<ref name="Faillance"/> ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' writers saw the ''Tomorrow'' episode with Child and thought it would make a funny sketch.<ref name="Mock"/> The writers took Child's relatively minor mishap and transformed it into a major accident.  Child is parodied by [[Dan Aykroyd]], who is a fan of Julia Child.<ref name="Mock"/><ref name="alex">{{cite book |author=Prud’homme, Alex |title=The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2016 |url=https://mylittlebird.com/2016/10/alex-prudhomme-french-chef-in-america/ |location=New York |accessdate=November 16, 2023}}</ref>  In the sketch, Aykroyd—as Julia Child—continued with a cooking show despite ludicrously profuse bleeding from a cut to his thumb, and eventually expired while advising, "Save the liver."<ref name="SNL">{{cite web |title=SNL Transcripts: Eric Idle: 12/09/78: The French Chef |work=SNL Transcripts Tonight: For Die Hard Saturday Night Live Fans |url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78hchef.phtml |date=October 8, 2018 |accessdate=November 16, 2023}}</ref>  Child had a videocassette copy of the episode, and she reportedly loved this sketch so much she showed it to friends at parties.<ref name="dearie"/><ref name="Mock"/><ref name="alex"/>
* She appears in an episode of ''[[This Old House]]'' as designer of the kitchen. ''This Old House'' was launched in 1979 by [[Russell Morash]], who helped create ''The French Chef with Julia Child''.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/This-Old-House-Dream-VHS/dp/B00000F0P4 This Old House: A Dream House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912161216/https://www.amazon.com/This-Old-House-Dream-VHS/dp/B00000F0P4|date=September 12, 2014}}</ref>
* On March 14, 2022, the [[Food Network]] began a new series called ''The Julia Child Challenge''. The series is based in a replica of Julia's kitchen modified to allow eight contestants (all home cooks) to compete at the same time in a multi-episode cooking challenge. Each episode revolves around one or more episode of one of Child's cooking shows with clips of Child interspersed into the contents of the competition. The winner will receive a scholarship to a cooking school in Paris.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/the-julia-child-challenge|website=Food Network|title=The Julia Child Challenge}}</ref>
* In late March 2022, [[HBO Max]] began airing ''[[Julia (2022 TV series)|Julia]]'', a television series based on Child's life starring [[Sarah Lancashire]] in the title role.

===Online===

* In 2002, Child was the inspiration for "The Julie/Julia Project", a popular cooking blog by [[Julie Powell]] that was the basis of Powell's bestselling book, ''Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen,'' published in 2005, the year following Child's death. The paperback version of the book was retitled ''Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.''<ref>{{cite news| last=Powell| first=Julie| website=[[Salon.com|Salon]]| url=http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021013043154/http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html| title=The Julie/Julia Project: Nobody here but us servantless American cooks ...| date=August 25, 2002| archive-date=October 13, 2002| access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YV0IskcivVIC&q=Julie+and+Julia:+365+Days,+524+Recipes,+1+Tiny+Apartment+Kitchen| isbn=978-0-7595-1457-7| publisher=Little, Brown| last1=Powell| first1=Julie| date=September 1, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first=Julie| last=Powell| title=Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously| isbn=978-0-3160-4251-2| date=July 1, 2009| publisher=Little, Brown| url=https://archive.org/details/juliejuliamyyear00powe| url-access=registration}}</ref> The blog and book, along with Child's own memoir ''[[My Life in France]]'', in turn inspired the 2009 feature film ''[[Julie & Julia]].'' Child is reported to have been unimpressed by Powell's blog, believing Powell's determination to cook every recipe in ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' in a year to be a stunt. In an interview, Child's editor, [[Judith Jones]], said of Powell's blog: "Flinging around four-letter words when cooking isn't attractive, to me or Julia. She didn't want to endorse it. What came through on the blog was somebody who was doing it almost for the sake of a stunt."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/07/julia-child-considered-the-juliejulia-project-a-stunt| title=Julia Child Considered 'The Julie/Julia Project' a Stunt| website=Eat Me Daily| date=July 20, 2009|access-date=December 31, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701062826/http://www.eatmedaily.com:80/2009/07/julia-child-considered-the-juliejulia-project-a-stunt/| archive-date=July 1, 2020}}</ref>
* On March 15, 2016, [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] started to stream Child's show ''[[The French Chef]]''. This event was in celebration of both the launch of the cooking section of [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] and the anniversary of Child's graduation from [[Le Cordon Bleu]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/15/twitch-to-stream-julia-childs-cooking-show-to-kick-off-launch-of-new-food-channel/| title=Twitch to stream Julia Child's cooking show to kick off launch of new Food Channel| website=TechCrunch| first=Sarah| last=Perez| date=March 15, 2016}}</ref>
* In May 2016, [[Epic Rap Battles of History]] made an episode featuring Julia Child in a [[Battle rap|rap battle]] against [[Gordon Ramsay]], gaining over 48 million views.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=c_X4fr0VUEzVo5VM&v=99-n42Xb6NQ&feature=youtu.be |title=Gordon Ramsay vs Julia Child. Epic Rap Battles of History |date=2016-05-18 |last=ERB |access-date=2024-09-11 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

==Works==
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===Television series===
* ''[[The French Chef]]'' (1963–1966; 1970–1973)
* ''Julia Child & Company'' (1978–1979)
* ''Julia Child & More Company'' (1979–1980)
* ''Dinner at Julia's'' (1983–1984)
* ''[[The Way To Cook]]'' (1985) six one-hour videocassettes
* ''A Birthday Party for Julia Child: Compliments to the Chef'' (1992)
* ''[[Cooking with Master Chefs: Hosted by Julia Child]]'' (1993–1994) 16 episodes
* ''Cooking In Concert: Julia Child & [[Jacques Pépin]]'' (1994)
* ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs'' (1995), 39 episodes
* ''Cooking In Concert: Julia Child & [[Graham Kerr]]'' (1995)
* ''More Cooking in Concert: Julia Child & Jacques Pépin'' (1996)<ref name=alacarte>{{cite web| url=http://www.alacartetv.com/html/jnj/aboutalc.htm| title=About A La Carte Communications & Geoffrey Drummond| website=A la carte tv| access-date=March 28, 2009| archive-date=January 5, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105182725/http://www.alacartetv.com/html/jnj/aboutalc.htm| url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Baking with Julia]]'' (1996–1997) 39 episodes
* ''Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home'' (1999–2000) 22 episodes
* ''Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom'', (2000) two-hour special

===DVD releases===
* ''Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom'' (2000)
* ''Julia and Jacques: Cooking at Home'' (2003)
* ''Julia Child: America's Favorite Chef'' (2004)
* ''The French Chef: Volume One'' (2005)
* ''The French Chef: Volume Two'' (2005)
* ''Julia Child! The French Chef'' (2006)
* ''The Way To Cook'' (2009)
* ''Baking With Julia'' (2009)

===Books===
* ''[[Mastering the Art of French Cooking]]'' (1961), with [[Simone Beck]] and [[Louisette Bertholle]]
* ''The French Chef Cookbook'' (1968). {{ISBN|0394401352}}.
* ''[[Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two]]'' (1970), with [[Simone Beck]]. {{ISBN|0394401522}}.
* ''From Julia Child's Kitchen'' (1975). {{ISBN|0517207125}}.
* ''Julia Child & Company'' (1978). {{ISBN|0345314492}}.
* ''Julia Child & More Company'' (1979). {{ISBN|0345314506}}.
* ''[[The Way to Cook]]'' (1989). {{ISBN|0394532643}}.
* ''Julia Child's Menu Cookbook'' (1991), one-volume edition of ''Julia Child & Company'' and ''Julia Child & More Company''. {{ISBN|0517064855}}.
* ''Cooking With Master Chefs'' (1993). {{ISBN|0679748296}}.
* ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs'' (1995). {{ISBN|0679438963}}.
* ''[[Baking with Julia]]'' (1996). {{ISBN|0688146570}}.
* ''Julia's Delicious Little Dinners'' (1998). {{ISBN|0375403361}}.
* ''Julia's Menus for Special Occasions'' (1998). {{ISBN|0375403388}}.
* ''Julia's Breakfasts, Lunches & Suppers'' (1999). {{ISBN|0375403396}}.
* ''Julia's Casual Dinners'' (1999). {{ISBN|037540337X}}.
* ''Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home'' (1999), with Jacques Pépin. {{ISBN|978-0375404313}}.
* ''[[Julia's Kitchen Wisdom]]'' (2000). {{ISBN|0375411518}}.
* ''[[My Life in France]]'' (2006, posthumous), with Alex Prud'homme. {{ISBN|1400043468}}.
* (collected in) ''American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes'', ed. Molly O'Neill ([[Library of America]], 2007)

==Books about Child==
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* {{cite book|last=Barr|first=Nancy Verde|title=Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia Child|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMEN6E_HPr8C|access-date=October 14, 2011|date=March 28, 2008|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|isbn=978-0-470-27637-2}}
* {{cite book|last=Conant|first=Jennet|author-link=Jennet Conant|title=A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS|url=https://archive.org/details/covertaffairjuli00cona|date=April 5, 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-6352-8}}
* {{cite book|last=Fitch|first=Noël Riley|title=Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDDYYhUS4i0C|access-date=October 14, 2011|date=April 13, 1999|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=978-0-385-49383-3}}
* {{cite book|last1=Painter|first1=Charlotte|last2=Valois|first2=Pamela|title=Gifts of age: portraits and essays of 32 remarkable women|url=https://archive.org/details/giftsofageportra00pain|url-access=registration|access-date=October 14, 2011|year=1985|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-0-87701-368-6}}
* {{cite book|last=Reardon|first=Joan|title=As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780547417714|url-access=registration|access-date=October 14, 2011|date=December 1, 2010|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-547-41771-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Shapiro|first=Laura|title=Julia Child: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mloe4yhNct8C|access-date=October 14, 2011|date=August 1, 2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-311644-8}}
* {{cite book|last=Spitz|first=Bob|title=Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child (end notes available on author's site)|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307473417|access-date=August 7, 2012|date=August 7, 2012|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|isbn=978-0-307-47341-7}}
{{refend}}

==See also==
* [[Doña Petrona]]
* [[Fanny Cradock]]
* [[Graham Kerr]] (The Galloping Gourmet)
* [[List of Légion d'honneur recipients|List of Legion of Honour recipients by name]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.juliachildfoundation.org/ The Julia Child Foundation]
* {{IMDb name|157463}}
* {{The Interviews name|julia-child}}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/julia-child News and commentary about Julia Child] in [[The New York Times]]
* [https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/9746 Papers of Julia Child, 1925-1993] in [[Schlesinger Library]], Radcliffe Institute, [[Harvard University]]
* [https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/6110 Videotape collection of Julia Child, 1979–1997] in [[Schlesinger Library]], Radcliffe Institute, [[Harvard University]]
* [https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/6109 Audio collection of Julia Child, 1961–1995] in [[Schlesinger Library]], Radcliffe Institute, [[Harvard University]]
* [https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/food/online/julia-childs-kitchen Julia Child's Kitchen] at the Smithsonian [[National Museum of American History]]
* [https://www.pbs.org/food/collections/the-julia-child-experience PBS Food: The Julia Child Experience] from [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180306232018/http://www.pbs.org/food/julia-child/ Julia Child: PBS Icon and Cooking Pioneer (archived 2018)] from [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] website
* [https://www.cordonbleu.edu/london/julia-child-scholarship/en The Julia Child Scholarship] by [[Le Cordon Bleu]] London

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