Julia is elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – an honorary society that recognizes achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Julia is awarded L'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honor), the highest decoration in France, for her services to French culinary arts.

Conceived of as an essential compendium of Julia's wisdom and learning over the last forty years, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom is published. "It began as my loose-leaf kitchen reference guide, gradually compiled from my own trials, remedies, and errors – corrected as I've cooked my way through the years," she describes. Arranged according to type of ingredient [...]