Julia Child's Kitchen

At a reception today to commemorate Julia Child’s birthday Aug. 15, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, home to Child’s kitchen, announced the program of the first Smithsonian Food History Weekend and companion gala fundraising dinner. The events, Oct.

The Smithsonian’s first major exhibition on food history—“FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950–2000,” opening at the National Museum of American History Nov. 20—explores some of the major changes in food and eating in postwar America.