“Julia’s Homecoming: An Evening with Julia Child: At the Valley Hunt Club.” Pasadena Valley Hunt Club, Nov. 7, 1990.
“Julia at 80: With Christopher Lydon.” WGBH, 1992.
“A Taste of Norway.” 1992. Prod, and Dir. Russ Morash.
“Julia Child and Jacques Pépin: Cooking in Concert.” A La Carte Communications, 1995. Prod. Geoffrey Drummond. James Beard Award, Best Culinary Video of the Year.
“Julia Child and Graham Kerr, Cooking in Concert.” A La Carte, 1995. Prod. Geoffrey Drummond.
“Julia Child and Jacques Pépin: More Cooking in Concert.” A La Carte, 1996. Prod. Geoffrey Drummond.
CD-ROM
“Julia Child: Home Cooking with Master Chefs.” A La Carte Productions. Microsoft, 1996. Prod. Geoffrey Drummond.
PERSONAL AWARDS
George Foster Peabody Award (1965), “distinguished achievement in television”
Emmy Award (1966), first ETV personality to win an Emmy
Ordre de Mérite Agricole (1967)
Ordre de Mérite National (1976)
Confrérie de Cérès (1972)
La Commanderie des Cordons Bleus de France (1980), first woman member
Honorary degrees from Harvard University, Boston University, Bates College, Rutgers University, Smith College
ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPTS
Jewell Fenzi. The Foreign Service Spouse Oral History. Interview with Julia Child. Nov. 7, 1991, Washington, DC, 22 pp.
Julia McWilliams Child ’34 and Paul C. Child. Smith College Oral History recorded in Cambridge, MA, Oct. 10, 1972, 51 pp. (for College. A Smith Mosaic. Smith Centennial Study, 1971–73)
PAUL CHILD PHOTOGRAPHS
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
SELECTED SECONDARY WORKS
Ali-Bab (Henri Babinski). Gastronomie Pratique. 9th ed.; Paris: Flammarion, 1926 (orig. pub. 1906).
Bain, David Haward. Whose Woods These Are: A History of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference: 1926–1992. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1993.
Becker, René. “Julia: A Love Story,” Boston Magazine, July 1992: 52–55, 121–23.
Barr, Ann, and Paul Levy. The Official Foodie Handbook. NY: Arbor House, 1984.
Beck, Simone, with Suzanne Patterson. Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories from Simca’s Cuisine. NY: Viking, 1991.
Bertholle, Louisette, Simone Beck, and Helmut Ripperger. What’s Cooking in France. NY: Ives Washburn, 1952.
Brockhurst, Paul. Pasadena: A Heritage to Celebrate; 1886–1986. Centennial Videotape, 1987.
Carpenter, Thomas D. Pasadena: Resort Hotels and Paradise. Azusa, CA: Marc Sheldon, 1984.
Chamberlain, Narcissa G. and Narcisse. The Flavor of France in Recipes and Pictures. Photos by Samuel Chamberlain. NY: Hastings House, 2 vols., 1960, 1964.
Chelminski, Rudolph. The French at Table. NY: Morrow, 1985.
Child, Charles. Roots in the Rock. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.
Child, Paul. Bubbles from the Spring. Antique Press, 1974.
_____. “Poems.” Endpaper, New York Times, May 16, 1976: 103.
Clark, Robert. James Beard: A Biography. NY: HarperCollins, 1993.
Coffey, Roberta Wallace. “Their Recipe for Love,” McCall’s, Nov. 1988: 96–98.
Crocker, Donald. Within the Vale of Annandale: A Picture History of South Western Pasadena and Vicinity. Pasadena: Foothill Valley YWCA, 1960.
Cummings, Richard Osborn. The American and His Food: A History of Food Habits in the U.S. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940.
Curnonsky (Maurice-Edmond Sailland). Cuisine et Vins de France. Ed. Robert J. Courtine. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1974.
Curtin, Deane W., and Lisa M. Heldke, eds. Cooking Eating Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Escoffier, Auguste. The Escoffier Cookbook. NY: Crown, 1969.
“Everyone’s in the Kitchen” (cover story), Time, Nov. 25, 1966: 74–87.
Farb, Peter, and George Armelagos. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Fenzi, Jewell, and Carl L. Nelson. “Bon Appétit: Julia Child: From Foreign Service Wife to French Chef,” Foreign Service Journal, Nov. 1992: 40–43.
Ferretti, Fred. “A Gourmet at Large: Julia Child; America’s Favorite Cook,” Gourmet, Feb. 1995: 70–72, 99.
Fisher, M. F. K. Among Friends. NY: Knopf, 1970.
_____. The Art of Eating: The Collected Gastronomical Works of M. F. K. Fisher. NY: World, 1954.
Fitch, Noel Riley. “The Crisco Kid,” Los Angeles Magazine, Aug. 1996: 82–85.
_____. “La Communion Gastronomique” [“Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas—Food:
The Sacrament of Their Devotion”], in Lettre Internationale: Revue Européenne Trimestrielle, 1989.
_____. Literary Cafés of Paris. Wash., DC: Starrhill, 1989.
Flanner, Janet. Paris Journal 1944–1965. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1965.
Fussell, Betty. Masters of American Cookery. NY: Times, 1983.
Hartman, Curtis, and Steven Raichlen. “Julia Child: The Boston Magazine Interview,” Boston, April 1981: 75–85.
Hess, John L., and Karen Hess. The Taste of America. NY: Grossman, 1977.
Honey, Maureen, ed. Breaking the Ties That Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman, 1915–1930. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Jennes, Gail. “Couples” (cover story), People, Dec. 1, 1975: 51–54.
Jones, Evan. Epicurean Delight: The Life and Times of James Beard. NY: Knopf, 1990.
Lazar, David, ed. Conversation with M. F. K. Fisher. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
Levenstein, Harvey. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America. NY: Oxford University, 1993.
_____. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. NY: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Lovell, Stanley P. Of Spies & Stratagems. NY: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Lydon, Christopher. “Queen Julia,” The Improper Bostonian. March 27–April 9, 1996: 11–16.
MacDonald, Elizabeth P. Undercover Girl. NY: Macmillan, 1947.
McIntosh, Elizabeth P. [MacDonald]. The Role of Women in Intelligence. Intelligence Profession Series #5. McLean, VA: Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 1989.
McWilliams, John. Recollections of John McWilliams: His Youth, Experiences in California, and the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, n.d.
Mendelson, Anne. Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking. NY: Henry Holt, 1996.
Montagne, Prosper. Larousse Gastronomique: The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery. Eds. Charlotte Turgeon and Nina Froud. NY: Crown, 1961.
Oliver, Raymond. Gastronomy of France. Trans. Claude Durrell. Cleveland: World, 1967.
Painter, Charlotte. Gifts of Age: Portraits and Essays of 32 Remarkable Women. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1985.
Pasadena City Library. A Pasadena Chronology, 1769–1977, 1976.
Pellaprat, Henri-Paul. L’Art Culinaire Moderne: La Bonne Table Française et Etrangère. Preface by Cumonsky. Paris: Comptoir Français du Livre, 1936 (reprinted 1948).
Reardon, Joan. M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Walker: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table. NY: Harmony Books, 1994.
Reynolds, Catharine. “Paris Journal: One Hundred Years of Le Cordon Bleu,” Gourmet, Jan. 1995: 50–53, 58–59.
Rombauer, Irma S. The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936; rev. ed. 1943 et seq. (After 1951: The Joy of Cooking, with Marion Rombauer Becker.)
Root, Waverley, and Richard de Rochemont. Eating in America: A History. NY: Morrow, 1976.
Saint-Ange, Madame E. La Cuisine. Grenoble: Editions Chaix, 1957.
Shapiro, Laura. Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centur
y. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Smith, R. Harris. OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
Sokolov, Raymond. Why We Eat What We Eat. NY: Summit, 1991.
Stacey, Michelle. Consumed: Why Americans Love, Hate, and Fear Food. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Stegner, Wallace. The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974 (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1988).
Street, Julian. Where Paris Dines. NY: Doubleday, 1929.
Tomkins, Calvin. “Profiles: Good Cooking,” The New Yorker, Dec. 23, 1974: 36–41, 44–52.
Van Voris, Jacqueline. Smith College Centennial Study. College. A Smith Mosaic. Oct. 10, 1972.
Visser, Margaret. The Ritual of Dinner. NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
Weeks, Edward. The Lowells and Their Institute. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966.
Weston, Donald M. Weston: 1065–1951. Pittsfield, MA: Sun Printing, 1951.
White, Theodore H. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure. London: Cape, 1979.
______. Theodore H. White at Large: The Best of His Magazine Writing 1939–1986. Ed. Edward T. Thompson. NY: Pantheon, 1992.
_____ and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder Out of China. London: Gollancz, 1947.
Whiting, Charles F. “Development of the Communities of Francis Avenue and the Norton Estate.” Cambridge, MA, March 1966.
Wittemore, Hank. “Julia and Paul” (cover story), Parade, Feb. 28, 1982.
York, Pat. “Julia Child,” in Going Strong. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991: 66–69.
Grandfather John McWilliams (1832–1924) followed the Gold Rush to California from Illinois when he was seventeen years old. In the twentieth century he moved his family from the Midwest to Pasadena, from where he managed his Arkansas rice farmland and Kern County, California, mineral rights.
Westonholme: Grandfather Byron Curtis Weston’s home in Dalton, Massachusetts, taken in the winter of 1899. Julia’s mother, Julia Carolyn, was born here, the seventh of ten children of Byron (1832–1898), founder of the Weston Paper Company, and Julia Clark Mitchell (1844–1902).
Julia Carolyn McWilliams, born August 15, 1912, with her parents, John and Caro, on the veranda of their first house, at 625 Magnolia Avenue in Pasadena, one block west of her McWilliams grandparents.
Julia Carolyn (Caro) Weston (thirty-three) and John McWilliams, Jr. (thirty), on their honeymoon at the Coronado Hotel in San Diego, California, in January 1911. A happy ending to what her brothers called “the eight-year war of their courtship.”
Eulalie, Julia’s 1929 black Ford, which she was given in her senior year at Smith in 1933–1934. She drove her gang to the speakeasies in Holyoke during the campaign to repeal prohibition.
Caro (in her tennis clothes) and her three children, John III, Julia, and Dorothy, about 1923 or 1924, in Montecito, on the shore next to Santa Barbara, where the family rented a home each summer until the mid-1920s.
The Gang of Five from Hubbard House, Smith College (1930–1934), Northampton, Massachusetts: Constance Thayer, Peggy Clark, Julia McWilliams, Mary Case (her roommate), and Hester Adams. Julia’s animal is the only one that is not stuffed.
Julia McWilliams on the steps of the family’s summer home in San Malo, near Oceanside, California, 1936. This was her “social butterfly period,” when the weekend parties included a house full of friends and plenty to drink.
Dort, John, and Julia, sitting on the brick wall that held off the sand around their summer home in San Malo, in the late 1930s, about the time that Dort was going to Bennington College and John into the family business (the Weston Paper Company).
Julia in a Pasadena Junior League play, probably The Emperor (1938). Her acting and playwriting began in the family attic. Fifty years later she told Charlie Rose, “I’m on TV for the same reason you are, I’m a ham!”
Paul Child (forty-one) at Kapurtala House, New Delhi, India, in early 1944. Paul built the War Room for Mountbatten in New Delhi, then in Ceylon, where he met Julia. The photograph reflects both the heat of India and the de rigueur after-five behavior of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the United States’ first espionage organization).
The wedding reception of Julia and Paul, September 1, 1946, at the home of Charlie and Freddie Child in Lumberville, Pennsylvania. They had been in a serious car accident the day before: “We were married in stitches,” said Paul, “me on a cane and Julia full of glass.”
Julia (almost thirty-two) on an Army cot (with folded mosquito net above) in Kandy, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), July 19, 1944. The photograph was taken by Paul Child, whom she had met during the last days of April.
A few of the China OSS gang, including Julia McWilliams and Paul Child on the far right, in Kunming, the mountain headquarters for Chennault’s Flying Tigers and the OSS in southern China at the end of the Burma Road.
Julia and Paul with his twin brother, Charlie, and his family: Fredericka, Erica, Jonathan, Charlie, Julia, Paul, and Rachel in the late 1940s. When they were not living near each other, the twins wrote to each other daily.
Twins Charles and Paul Child, born January 15, 1902, six months before their father’s death, were reared in Boston by their artistic mother, Bertha May Cushing Child. “Mrs. Child and Her Children” performed together (Paul on violin, Charlie on cello). (Right) Child twins at work in Maine, clearing the land for Charlie’s cabin at Lopaus Point on Mount Desert Island, where the family holidayed for years. “Paul and I were like two old horses,” Charlie wrote in his memoirs, Roots in the Rock (1964).
Julia Child working on the cabin in Maine. Paul had written Charlie from China that Julia was “a wonderful ‘good scout’ in the sense of being able to take physical discomfort, such as mud, leeches, tropic rains, or lousy food.”
(PAUL CHILD)
Julia in the Childs’ apartment in Paris, where Paul worked for the U.S. Information Service (he was in charge of exhibits). She is wearing a suit made from tweed purchased in London and holding their first of many cats, January 1950.
Julia looking out of their bedroom window toward the gardens of the French Ministry of Defense. The Childs rented the top apartment at 81, rue de l’Université, in the 7th Arrondissement, not far from the Concorde Bridge across the Seine.
(PAUL CHILD)
Paul with Hélène Baltrusaitis, Julia’s best friend in France, during one of their many picnics from 1948 to 1953. The women would study English and French together by meeting at the Closerie des Lilas each week.
The Cordon Bleu cooking school, Paris, 1949 or 1950. Julia’s mentor, chef Max Bugnard, is the second from the left. Julia, the only woman, attended a class for future professionals studying under the GI Bill.
Cooking in her Paris apartment kitchen, built out from the maid’s quarters under the roof and reached by a narrow, steep stair. The ovens are to her right.
(PAUL CHILD)
Matron of honor Julia Child and best man Lt. Jack Kelly witness the marriage of Jack Hemingway and Puck Whitlock at the American Church in Paris, June 25, 1949.
(COURTESY JACK HEMINGWAY)
The McWilliams sisters in Paris. Dorothy, left, lived with Julia and Paul from April 8, 1949, until she got her own apartment nearly a year later, after falling in love with Ivan Cousins, a former U.S. Navy man living in Paris.
(PAUL CHILD)
A photograph of one of Paul Child’s paintings of the Paris rooftops. Painted in the summer of 1952, it shows the view from the balcony of the apartment of Rosemary and Abe Manell on the Ile St.-Louis.
Wedding reception of Dorothy McWilliams and Ivan Cousins, June 23, 1951, in New York City. From the left: Paul Child, sister-in-law Josephine McWilliams, Julia, Ivan beside his mother (Pearl Marie Cousins), Dorothy (standing behind Ivan), John McWilliams III, stepmother Phila, and father John McWilliams, Jr. In the front row are John and Jo’s first two children, John IV (Jay) and Carol.
Julia and Simca visiting Chinon for the we
ekend, April 2, 1952. They were personal and professional “sisters,” both animal lovers with boundless energy.
(PAUL CHILD)
L’Ecole des Trois Gourmandes in 1953: Louisette Bertholle, Simone (Simca) Beck, and Julia Child. In the Childs’ kitchen at 81, rue de l’Université, where they taught American students. They were also hard at work on their book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, published eight years later.
(PAUL CHILD)
Julia in 1953 in the window of the Childs’ apartment in Marseilles, where they lived in the Old Port. Julia loved the sea, experimented with bouillabaisse, and typed thousands of pages of recipes and letters to send back to Paris.
(PAUL CHILD)
The Childs’ 1956 Valentine’s card from their home near Bonn, Germany. “This little photo illustrates your old CBI [China-Burma-India] companions in one of their more formal diplomatic moments,” Julia wrote to friends.
(PAUL CHILD)
Avis DeVoto, “the godmother” of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, here with Paul Child.
(COURTESY MARK DEVOTO)
Just back from two years in Oslo, Norway, Julia and Paul correct proofs on the index of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (published October 1961) at Lopaus Point, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Avis DeVoto and Julia Child at Charnel House Court, Rouen, France, May 1956.
(PAUL CHILD)
Julia and James Beard in the back garden of Beard’s house at 119 West Tenth Street, Greenwich Village, May 21, 1964. Julia periodically flew down from Boston to teach in his cooking school.
(PAUL CHILD)
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