From two-time Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear and two-time Obie Award–winning director Lisa Peterson comes The Recipe, a funny, colorful, and delicious new play about the woman behind the legend. Before Julia Child was the beloved TV icon we know, she was a rambunctious rebel pushing back against the privileged but bland life expected of her. Directionless yet driven, she careens from Pasadena to New York, Washington, D.C., Ceylon, and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school—battling long odds, too-short sleeves, and her own self-doubt before finding both her calling and her true love, her husband Paul Child.