Julia Child’s Provence home is now a cooking school where guests use her original kitchen

Photo credit (L-R): Wikipedia; www.lapeetch.okay-perfect.com Julia Child and her husband, Paul, built La Pitchoune in Provence in 1963 as a place to cook, entertain and return to year after year. The small stucco house became their summer retreat for nearly three decades, its kitchen shaped around Julia’s personality and practical approach to cooking. When she gave up the property in 1992, it did not become just another quiet country home. It went on to serve as a cooking school, and today visitors can still prepare meals in the kitchen where Child worked. Colorado’s Coloradan and Eater have both told the story of the house’s later life, describing how its owners have preserved the original kitchen while welcoming cooks to experience the space for themselves. Read on to know more details about it here:A little house in ProvenceLa Pitchoune, which means “the little one,” sits near the village of Plascassier in the hills above Cannes. The Childs built it on land owned by Julia’s close friend and cookbook collaborator Simone Beck and her husband, Jean Fischbacher. It was modest compared with the grand villas often associated with the French Riviera, but its setting and kitchen made it...