The Times of India: Fess Parker once lived in this 1934 Santa Barbara mansion and Julia Child filmed 13 TV episodes there; th
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
Julia Child
Julia Carolyn Child 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.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · American cooking personality (1912–2004) · writer · cook · television presenter · copywriter · typist · research assistant · administrative assistant · clerk · spy · also Julia Child, Julia Carolyn Child, Julia McWilliams, Julia Carolyn McWilliams, Child
Born 15 August 1912 · Died 13 August 2004 · Q214477
63 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
6 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Quote
2026· 12 entries
The Daily Gazette: In & Out of the Kitchen: The legacy of Julia Child's kitchen
- #news
- #headline
Pasadena Now: Pasadena’s Julia Child Would Turn 114 Saturday. Her Kitchen Still Draws Pilgrims to the Smithsonian
- #news
- #headline
Contexto Tucumán: Julia Child: de espía en la Segunda Guerra Mundial a icónica chef televisiva
- #news
- #headline
parade.com: Quote of the Day: Julia Child’s Brilliant Reminder That There’s No Limit to What You Can Create
- #news
- #headline
ABC15 Arizona: Discover Julia Child’s legacy at the new Phoenix exhibit featuring a replica of her kitchen studio
- #news
- #headline
Infobae: De joven salvaje a espía de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y chef más famosa de la TV: los talentos sorprendentes de Julia Child
- #news
- #headline
AOL: Julia Child's Storage Solution For Dried Kitchen Goods Makes Home Cooking So Much Simpler
- #news
- #headline
iconic life: A Culinary Celebration Inspired by Julia Child
- #news
- #headline
Robb Report: Julia Child Filmed Her 1980s Cooking Show at This Historic $22 Million Santa Barbara Estate
- #news
- #headline
VegNews.com: How to Make Julia Child’s Iconic French Recipes Vegan: Advice From a Top Chef
- #news
- #headline
Tasting Table: Quote Of The Day By Julia Child: 'Certainly One Of The Important Requirements For Learning How To Cook Is That...'
- #news
- #headline
2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: 12 Essential Julia Child Recipes Every Cook Should Know
- #news
- #headline
2023· 4 entries
The Daily Beast: How ‘Julia’ Brought Julia Child’s Paris to Delicious Life
- #news
- #headline
Food & Wine: Inside Julia Child’s Old-School Thanksgiving, From the Bean Queen to a Butter-Swiping Airedale
- #news
- #headline
collider: 'Chopped: Julia Child's Kitchen' Is Coming to Food Network
- #news
- #headline
Author Colleen Gleason worked under the pen name "Colleen Cambridge" to write the American in Paris Mysteries series of historical cozy mystery novels
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2022· 3 entries
It honored her by naming it the Julia McWilliams Child '34 Campus Center
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Deadline.com: ‘Julia’: Julie Cohen & Betsy West’s Julia Child Feature Doc To Air On CNN
- #news
- #headline
The Food Network began a new series called The Julia Child Challenge
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2016· 1 entry
Twitch started to stream Child's show The French Chef
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2012· 1 entry
Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,271 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
2007· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2007).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Child was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2006· 1 entry
And written with her grandnephew, Alex Prud'homme
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2005· 1 entry
The year following Child's death
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2004· 3 entries
Died 2004-08-13.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
The Foundation makes grants to other nonprofits
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
“A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:it
- #multi-edition
2003· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2003).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
2002· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2001· 1 entry
Child moved to a retirement community in California, donating her house and office to Smith College, which later sold the house
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2000· 5 entries
Snopes rated the claim “During an episode of Julia Child's television program, she dropped a turkey on the floor and then picked it up and put it back on the counter.” False.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
Child was made a Knight of France's Legion of Honour
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2000).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1995· 1 entry
Child established The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, a private charitable foundation to make grants to further her life's work
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1994· 1 entry
After living in a nursing home for five years following a series of strokes
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1991· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1990· 1 entry
“Everybody is overreacting. If fear of food continues, it will be the death of gastronomy in the United States. Fortunately, the French don”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
1989· 1 entry
Published what she considered her magnum opus, a book and instructional video series collectively entitled The Way To Cook
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1981· 1 entry
Founded the American Institute of Wine & Food, 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 wi
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1980· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award (1980).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Child started appearing regularly on ABC's Good Morning America
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1979· 1 entry
By Russell Morash, who helped create The French Chef with Julia Child
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1978· 2 entries
Child and Jacques Pépin were guests on the NBC talk show Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
“I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
1972· 1 entry
The French Chef became the first television program to be captioned for the deaf, using the preliminary technology of open-captioning
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1970· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1965· 1 entry
Awarded Peabody Awards for The French Chef (1965).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1963· 3 entries
On WGBH, where it was immediately successful
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1961· 1 entry
The three researched and repeatedly tested recipes
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1952· 1 entry
DeVoto received a letter from Julia Child, at that time living in Paris, responding to one of her husband Bernard's recent magazine columns on how he detested stainless steel knives; Child thought he was “100% right”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1951· 2 entries
Child, Beck, and Bertholle began to teach cooking to American women in Child's Paris kitchen, calling their informal school L'école des trois gourmandes (The School of the Three Food Lovers)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Graduated from the famous Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris and later studied privately with Max Bugnard and other master chefs
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1948· 1 entry
The couple moved to Paris after the State Department assigned Paul there as an exhibits officer with the United States Information Agency
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1946· 1 entry
In Lumberville, Pennsylvania, later moving to a house in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1942· 1 entry
After finding that at 6 feet 2 inches (1
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1912· 2 entries
Born 1912-08-15.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth
In Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event