Julia Child's Model 182 Garland Commercial Range
date: label: Date made
content: 1951
name: label: user
content: Child, Julia
label: maker
content: Welbilt Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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 <i>The Joy of Cooking</i>, 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.
place: label: purchased; used
content: United States: District of Columbia
label: used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
label: used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Cooking
label: Subject
content: kitchen
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Occupations
label: See more items in
content: Julia Child's Kitchen
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Julia Child
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0253.0043
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0253.0043
label: accession number
content: 2001.0253
label: model number
content: 182
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Commercial Range
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 138 cm x 148 cm x 81 cm; 54 5/16 in x 58 1/4 in x 31 7/8 in