Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- In 1956, Paul and Julia Child returned to Washington from their 8-year State Department tour of duty in Marseille, Bonn, Oslo, and Paris. Julia's life had begun to focus on cooking during those days in Europe, and when the Childs returned to Washington, she bought, via a restaurateur friend (a man nicknamed "The Buffalo"), a huge black restaurant range that became the centerpiece of her increasingly busy kitchen. That range followed them to their next and permanent residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The huge six-burner stove, a Model 182 Garland Commercial Range, was built in the early 1950s by the Detroit Division of the Welbilt Corporation, and it remained, like her 1943 edition of The Joy of Cooking, a staple tool of her everyday cooking. She tested French recipes for her first best-selling cookbooks on that range, and did the kind of cooking that she would later teach Americans over 35 years of television cooking shows. For 40 years, colleagues in the culinary arts and later, emergent chefs would cook on that stove. Replaced by a handier electric convection oven only for her last three television cooking shows, Julia's much-loved Garland had heavy, daily use until Smithsonian staff removed it to the Museum in November 2001.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- user
- Child, Julia
- maker
- Welbilt Corporation
- Date made
- 1951
- Credit Line
- Gift of Julia Child
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 138 cm x 148 cm x 81 cm; 54 5/16 in x 58 1/4 in x 31 7/8 in
- Object Name
- Commercial Range
