from the editors
The Woman Behind the Icon | Darra Goldstein and Corky White
borborygmus
Rumblings from the World of Food
poems
Birthday Poems for Julia | Paul Child
illustration
The Joy of Julia | Ed Koren
tribute
My Friend Julia Child | Jacques Pépin
insights
Writing Pulia | Alex Prud’homme
A Full Measure of Humor | Stephanie Hersh
Julia’s Greatest Lesson | Sara Moulton
La Bella Julia | Franco Romagnoli
kitchen stories
Julia: The Ever-Curious Cook | Judith Jones
In Julia Child’s Kitchen, October 5, 1998 | David Nussbaum
personal history
A Woman of Affairs | Julia McWilliams
conversations
Charlotte and Julia | Nina M. Scott
rites of passage
Julia at Smith | Alice Julier
investigations
Sacred Cows and Dreamberries: In Search of the Flavor of France | Laura Shapiro
Mastering the Art of French Cooking: A Near Classic or a Near Miss | Joan Reardon
devotees
Notre Dame de la Cuisine and the Prince des Gastronomes | Noel Riley Fitch
scrapbook
Remembering Julia | Anne Willan, Jasper White, Susan Hermann Loomis, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Richard Dyck, Nach Waxman, Jill Norman, Susan Regis, Daphne Derven, Noriko Nakamura, Jessica Battilana, Rebecca Alssid
interlude
Bon Appétit! | Lee Hoiby
interview
A Conversation with Julia Child, Spring 1984 | Sharon Hudgins
politics
Whatever Would Julia Say Now? | Merry White
Cooking Up a Storm | Darra Goldstein
archive
A Menu Fit for a King
pastimes
In France with Julia | Patrick Healy
point of view
Stardom and the Hungry Public | Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
diary
Notes from a Cataloger’s Diary | Susan Riecken
the bookshelf
Books in Review
lagniappe
Bubble Bath
Cover: Elsa Dorfman, “Julia” (1988), 22″ x 28″, courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. www.elsa.photo.net