Not sure about donating her home to the college, but yes, she did move back to California, where she was raised, and that is where she passed away.

BC

Kathy, Julia child lived near me for 40 years. She donated her house to Smith and the kitchen to the Smithsonian. We had tons of paries here for her retirment last year when she moved to a retirement home in Santa Barbara.

John, we were at her home at a party years ago.(When J. Was with the press) She was very talkative and fun. She went to Smith and left her house to them.

P.S. is anyone having hotmail problems? I can not send nor receive mail. If anyone has sent me mail, I'm at yahoo too.

Sorry, it was in 2001 that she moved to the retirement home.

I adore Julia. Today was a sad day.

a class act. will be missed.

I used to wake up on Saturday mornings when I was little and watch old episodes of "The French Chef" and then go attempt to recreate things like her puff pastry in the kitchen. Needless to say, there was always a mess awaiting my mother when she entered the kitchen!

She has truly been an inspiration to so many cooks, professional and home. My favorite of her series was the one with Jacques Pepin . . . the rapport between the two was priceless!

We will miss you, Julia!

Thank you, Mrs Childs.

Bon Apetit

My mother saw her in a supermarket in Cambridge, MA one day. They began to chat about cooking, of course, and it ended with my mother explaining to Julia Child how to make some Italian dish. Imagine that! My mother bragged for years that she taught Julia Child how to cook the Italian way.

I loved watching how she handled the frustrations of cooking - always made me laugh when something didn't quite turn out the way she wanted it to. She will be missed.

I was watching out local TV station and they had Pepin on and he called dear Julia. the "anti-snob." She always shopped at the old Malben's on Mass. Ave., in Boston They had a special food locker for her.She also shopped Savanor's in Cambridge, ) and in the old place before the fire, she would help you with a recipe that you may have thumbed through on the cookbooks they had there.

Yes Smith would be where she'd donate something as that's where she went.

All my friends and I learned to cook differently from our moms from Julia - her and Craig Claiborne - her book & the Times cookbook were in everybody's kithcen here (NY) and in Boston, which were my haunts then.

My old favorite recipes of hers: Boeuf (I imagine, not "beef") Catalan, which involves stew-meat, bacon, tomatoes, and rice, as I recall; and Pistou, which I think is the name of a thousand-step minestrone.

I am very grateful to her. I think somebody should have a Julia memorial potluck party. I don't cook like that these days but I wouldn't mind.

My parents used to run into Julia every now and then at Bread and Circus in Cambridge, though I don't think my mother ever got up the nerve to talk to her (not that I think Julia would have minded!). My parents said she was as down to earth in person as she was on TV, as evidenced by the time they were behind her in line and the weather was very rainy. Julia asked for an extra plastic bag which she promptly tore and placed on her head as a makeshift rain hat!

She was a marvel. Her cookbook, The Way to Cook, is one of my all-time favorites. All of us who enjoy cooking and baking owe a lot to Julia Childs.

She made me laugh!

Anyone ever see the camping episode where she made French onion soup gratinee with a blow torch?! After that, mini blow torches were introduced in culinary shops.

Her cookbooks went to Wellesley,her house to Smith(her alma mater)
her kitchen to the Smithsoniam.

She truly will be missed. Her inpact on cooking in America, as well as her influence on women in the food industry is unequaled. Farewell and a final "bon appetit", Julia.

Many of us this evening, will dine at one of her favorite's, Hamersley's Bistro where she would walk into the kitchen and introduce herself to the hard-working staff.

While watching the news early this morning, I thought I read a scroll at the bottom of the TV screen which asked people to "raise a glass" at 8 o'clock tonight in remembrance of this remarkable woman. Nice idea.

Yes, apparently, she requested no funeral service, but I just saw this message from a cousin of Julia's:

"Her Nieces and Nephews have suggested a minute of silence tonight at 8 PM and raising a glass in a toast for all she has meant to so many of us."

A piece of my childhood went with her. My brother and I used to laugh hysterically when she'd say, "And you give it a whack!" on The French Chef, which was my parents' favorite show.