A thought on kitchen gear
“In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men’s underwear.”
— Julia Child
A note: Julia Child’s kitchen (not the TV set version, but the real one she used for years in Cambridge, Mass., was painstakingly recreated at the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C.
We saw the kitchen during a visit in 2013, and it impressed. The attention to detail is something else. As a tall person (I’m 6’6″, and Child was 6’2″), I noted that her counters were raised to make things easier for her to work. A boy can dream, although mine is of the pipe variety, as my wife is, um, not nearly as tall as I am.
As for the gear and tools she kept at hand, here are some notes from the museum:
The museum collected about 1,200 individual objects, including equipment kept out of sight in cabinets and drawers, but the exhibition presentation includes only those things that can be seen out in the open. Because of Julia’s preference for having her kitchen tools close to hand, however, there are still hundreds of objects to see.
You can get a look at the kitchen in this video:
