by Bob Spitz
Midwick Country Club, registers, 1930–1937.
Moynihan, Ruth Barnes. Children and Young People on the Overland Trail. Western Historical Quarterly 6, no. 3 (1975).
Oral History Project of the Marin County Free Library, September 20, 1976. Interviews with Helen Hind Fortune and Kitty Dibblee.
Pasadena City Library. A Pasadena Chronology: 1769–1977, 1977.
Social Register, Southern California, Los Angeles, Pasadena: 1921, Social Register Assoc., New York, 1920.
Smith College yearbook, 1934.
Smith College handbook, 1934.
Smith College. Class Reunion Directory, 1944.
Van Voris, Jacqueline. A Smith Mosaic. Smith College Centennial Study, October 10, 1972.
Weston, Carolyn, diary, 1900–1905. Courtesy Patty McWilliams.
Weston, Julia Mitchell, diary, 1865–1897. Courtesy Patty McWilliams.
Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Aaron, Sam and Florence
ABC
see also Good Morning America
abortion, Julia’s views on
Académie des gastronomes
Adams, Jody, 22.1, 23.1, 25.1, 25.2
Agriculture Department, U.S.
AIDS, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1
Aircraft Warning Service (AWS)
Alar, 25.1, 25.2n
Alden, Priscilla
Al Forno
Alfred A. Knopf, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1
see also Jones, Judith
Ali-Bab, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
Alsop, Stewart
Alssid, Rebecca, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3
Amana
America, SS,
American Appetite (Brenner),
American Club Theater, 10.1, 11.1
American Cookery (Beard),
American Institute of Wine and Food (AIWF), 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 26.1, 27.1
American Red Cross
Amerika Hauses
Amherst College
Amory, Cleveland
An American Place
Andrews, Dana
Anger, Kenneth
animal-rights activists, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2
Annandale Country Club
Aragon, Louis
Arnold, Matthew
Artamonoff, George
Art culinaire moderne, L’ (Pellaprat),
Art of Fish Cookery, The (Miloradovich),
asbestos
Ashbery, John
Asia, communism in
Association of Cooking Schools
atomic bomb
Au Gourmet
Avon Old Farms School
Aykroyd, Dan, 21.1, 22.1, 26.1
Babinski, Henri, see Ali-Bab
bacon
Bailey, F. Lee
baking
with American flour
Simca’s skill in, 11.1, 15.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 26.1
see also bread, French
Baking with Julia, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1
Baldwin, Berry
Baldwin, James
Baltrusaitis, Hélène, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1
Balzac, Honoré de, 9.1, 9.2
Barbeau, Monique
Barr, Nancy, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2
Barrett, Rona
Bartleman, Jane
Bassomatic
Bastianich, Lidia, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1
Bateson, Gregory, 5.1, 5.2
Batterberry, Michael, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1
Baudelaire, Charles
Baum, Joseph, 19.1, 19.2
bavarois à l’orange
Bayless, Rick
Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville (BHV)
Beard, James, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1
commercialism of
Craig Claiborne’s rivalry with
culinary style of, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 22.1
death of, 23.1, 25.1
Julia’s relationship with, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 25.1
béarnaise sauce, 8.1, 11.1
Beatles
béchamel sauce, 12.1, 17.1
Beck, Brooks
Beck, Simone, see Fischbacher, Simone Beck
Bedford, Sybille, 20.1, 23.1
Bee Baxter Show, The
beef Wellington
Bègue, Mademoiselle
Bel Geddes, Norman
Belle Cuisine, La
Bénédictine
Bennington College
Beranbaum, Rose Levy
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Irving
Berlitz
Bertholle, Louisette
in cookbook project, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2; see also Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Louisette’s role in
cooking ability of, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
in cooking school venture, 11.1, 11.2
Julia’s relationship with, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1
marital troubles of, 12.1, 14.1, 19.1
Simca’s cookbook with, 11.1, 11.2
Bertholle, Paul, 12.1, 19.1
beurre blanc nantais, 12.1, 13.1
Bicknell, Mari
Biltmore Hotel
Birch, Gladys
Birnamwood Country Club
Bishop, Liz, 22.1, 24.1
Bittman, Mark
Bloomingdale’s, 16.1, 16.2
Blueville, Maine
Bobbs-Merrill
Bocuse, Paul, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 25.1
bœuf bourguignon, 10.1, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Bohemian Club
Bombay, India
bombe, la
Bombeck, Erma
Bon appétit!
Bon Appétit (radio show),
Book-of-the-Month Club
Borden, 16.1, 18.1
Boston
Boston, Mass.
educational television in, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3; see also WGBH
food community in, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 25.1, 27.1
Julia’s celebrity in, 18.1, 23.1, 24.1
September 11, 2001, flight from, 27.1
Boston Cooking School Cookbook, The
Boston Gas Company, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Boston Globe, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1
Boston University, 22.1, 24.1, 25.1
Catholic Center of
Boswell, J. G.
bouillabaisse, 13.1, 13.2
Boulanger, Nadia
Boulangerie d’aujourd’hui
Bouley, David
Boulud, Daniel, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3
Bouquet de France (Chamberlain),
Bowen, Elizabeth
Bradford, William
Bradley, Gay, 2.1, 4.1
Bramafam, 18.1, 19.1
see also Pitchoune, La
Branson, Katharine, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Brassart, Élisabeth, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 16.1, 27.1
Brasserie
Brasserie Lipp, 9.1, 21.1
bread, French
Brenner, Leslie
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 13.1, 14.1
Brinkley, David
broccoli, 18.1, 24.1
Brooks, Paul
Brown, Helen Evans
Brown, Helen Gurley, prl.1, 19.1
Brownstone, Cecily
Bruce, Lenny
Bryant, Anita
Bryant, William Cullen
Buchwald, Art and Ann
Buckley, William F.
Budweiser
Bugnard, Max, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1
Burgundy
Burma, OSS operations in
Burros, Marian
Busbey, Fred
Busch, Adolphus
Busch Gardens
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George W., 27.1, 27.2
butter
Julia’s use of, 22.1, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1
Norman
Byron Weston Paper, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1
Caesar salad
Café de Chartres
Caffery, Jefferson
Cage, John
cake, 20.1, 20.2
California
cuisine in, 22.1, 22.2
Dinner at Julia’s filming in,
gold rush in
land rush in
produce in, 22.1, 22.2
restaurants in
wine industry in
World War II defenses in
see also Pasadena, Calif.; Santa Barbara, Calif.
California, University of, at Santa Barbara
Caltech
Calvel, Raymond
Cambridge, Mass.
Childs’ home in, see 103 Irving Street
Childs’ move to, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
intellectual community in, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 22.1
Paul’s nursing home near, see Fairlawn Nursing Home
Cambridge Electric Light Company
Cameron, Angus, 15.1, 15.2n, 15.3, 15.4
Campanile
Camus, Albert, 15.1, 15.2
Cannes, France
Cannon, Poppy, 14.1, 17.1
Can-Opener Cookbook, The (Cannon),
Capital Cities/ABC
Caravelle, La, 16.1, 19.1
Cardini, Caesar
Carême, Marie-Antoine, 12.1, 13.1
Carlin, George
Carlton Hotel
Carnegie, Andrew
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Elliot
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Casa Dorinda, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4
Case, Mary, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
cassoulet
Cathcart, Harriet
Cathcart, Noble
Cavalcade of Books, 16.1, 16.2
CBS, 16.1, 17.1, 26.1
Cercle des Gourmettes, Le, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
ceviche
Ceylon, Julia’s posting in, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Chablis
Chabrol, Claude
Chaliapin, Boris, 19.1
Chalone Vineyard
Chamberlain, Samuel
Chambord, 16.1, 19.1
Champagne Dennis
Chan, Harry
Chancellor, John
Chandet, Henriette
Chandler, Harrison, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1
Chandler family, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
charlotte Malakoff
Chase, Mary Ellen
chefs, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1
Chen, Joyce, 19.1, 21.1
Chez Georges
Chez la Mère Michel, 12.1, 21.1
Chez Panisse
Chiang Kai-shek
Chicago Cooks with Barbara Barkley
Chicago Tribune
chicken, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1, 18.2
Grandmother McWilliams’s
roast, 14.1, 14.2
see also poulet
Child, Bertha Cushing, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 20.1
Child, Charles Tripler, 6.1, 6.2, 20.1
Child, Erica, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 21.1
Child, Fredericka Boyles (Freddie), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 13.1
death of
Julia’s cooking lessons from, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Julia’s relationship with, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 17.1, 21.1
La Pitchoune visit of
as Mastering recipe tester
Child, Jon, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.1, 21.1, 21.2
Child, Julia
American food experience of, 13.1, 14.10, 14.1
anti-commercialism of, 18.1, 19.1, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3
Avis’s relationship with, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 23.1, 25.1
in Baking with Julia, 26.1, 26.2
bequests of
birth of, 2.1, 2.2
in Boston food scene, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 25.1, 27.1
breast cancer of
butter use by, 22.1, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1
and California cuisine, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
car accident of, 8.1, 22.1
celebrity of, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 22.6, 22.7, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2
charity work of, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 27.1
childhood mischievousness of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
childhood of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
childlessness of, 9.1, 24.1
college connections of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
college education of, prl.1, prl.2, 3.1, 3.2
on Communist threat
cooking career goals of, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1
in Cooking in Concert shows, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, 27.2
in cooking school venture, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
at Cordon Bleu, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
culinary activism of, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2
cultural significance of, prl.1, prl.2, 19.1, 22.1, 27.1
death of
in Dinner at Julia’s, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1
Dort’s relationship with, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 25.1, 27.1
drinking habits of, 3.1, 9.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2
early career goals of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 12.1, 16.1
early education of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
early jobs of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
early married life of
eightieth birthday of, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4
as embassy wife
end-of-life plans of, 24.1, 27.1
excitability of, 10.1, 17.1
family history of
father’s relationship with, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 17.1
financial situation of, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1, 15.1, 18.1, 18.2, 24.1
first romantic relationship of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
foreign language ability of, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Freddie’s cooking lessons to, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Freddie’s relationship with, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 17.1, 21.1
French bread recipe of
on French Chef, prl.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 25.1
From Julia Child’s Kitchen work of, 21.1, 21.2
in Germany, 14.1, 14.2
on Good Morning America, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4
Harrison Chandler’s relationship with, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1
and health fads, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1
Himalayas flight of
hip problems of
in house fire
humor of, prl.1, 5.1, 10.1, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 26.1, 26.2
India voyage of
intellectual development of, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
intellectual insecurity of, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 10.1
intelligence work of, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Irma Rombauer’s meeting with
James Beard’s relationship with, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 25.1
John McJennett’s relationship with, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1, 26.2
in Julia and Jacques
in Julia Child and Company, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1
in Julia Child and More Company
knee problems of, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.2, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4
legal representation of, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 24.1
libido of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 14.1
listed phone number of
Louisette’s relationship with, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1
Madeleine Kamman’s feud with, 19.1, 21.1, 24.1, 27.1
marital commitment of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 14.1, 21.1, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
in Marseille, 13.1, 13.2
in Master Chefs series, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3
Mastering cooking demonstrations by, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 16.1
in Mastering creation, 6.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1, 24.1
in Mastering promotion, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 18.1, 22.1
in Mastering II promotion
Mastering II work of, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5
memoir of, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4
mother’s relationship with, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1
“never apologize” doctrine of, 10.1, 18.1, 19.1, 23.1
and New York food community, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1
1954 home leave of
1963 Europe trip of
nonconformity of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 2.1, 2.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 17.1, 22.1
in Norway, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 17.1
Norway television special of
and nouvelle cuisine, 21.1, 21.2
Parade column of, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1
Paris dinner parties of, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Paris life of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
and Paul’s death, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4
Paul’s early relationship with, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2
Paul’s health care by, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 26.1
Paul’s introduction to, 5.1, 7.1
Paul’s love correspondence with, 8.1, 8.2
Paul’s nursing home visits from, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 25.1, 25.2
Paul’s phone conversations with, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2
Paul’s professional support of, prl.1, prl.2, 6.1, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 24.1, 26.1
Paul’s sonnet about
personality of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 2.1, 8.1, 16.1, 17.1, 20.1
physical appearance of, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 13.1, 17.1, 18.1
physical bearing of, prl.1, prl.2, 2.1
political activism of
political incorrectness of
political views of, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 17.2, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2
postwar career plans of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2