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When Julia Child, nearing 90, announced that she was relocating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to her home state of California in 2001, a three-member team from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History rushed to visit her home. Their initial goal was modest: ask the larger-than-life chef to donate a few items from the kitchen that had served as a set for several of her popular TV shows for its permanent food exhibition. However, the moment they stepped into the legendary…
