Editing Julia Child (section)

===Later career===
[[File:Julie child kitchen.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Julia Child's kitchen]] at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History]]

In the 1970s and 1980s, she was the star of numerous television programs, including ''Julia Child & Company'', ''Julia Child & More Company'', and ''Dinner at Julia's''. For the 1979 book ''Julia Child and More Company'', she won a [[National Book Award]] in [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Current|category Current Interest]].<ref name=nba1980>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1980 "National Book Awards&nbsp;– 1980"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-09. <br />There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.</ref> In 1980, Child started appearing regularly on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Good Morning America]]''.<ref>{{citation |title=The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts |date=May 8, 2022 |url=https://juliachildfoundation.org/1980-2/ |access-date=May 31, 2022 |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630125303/https://juliachildfoundation.org/1980-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1981, she founded the [[American Institute of Wine & Food]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aiwf.org/site/who-we-are.html |title=American Institute of Wine and Food |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100222200422/http://www.aiwf.org/site/who-we-are.html |archive-date=February 22, 2010}}</ref> with vintners [[Robert Mondavi]] and [[Richard Graff]], and others, to "advance the understanding, appreciation and quality of wine and food," a pursuit she had already begun with her books and television appearances. In 1989, she published what she considered her magnum opus, a book and instructional video series collectively entitled ''[[The Way To Cook]]''.

During the [[HIV/AIDS in the United States|AIDS crisis]] of the 1980s, Child went from holding [[homophobic]] views to being a passionate AIDS activist, triggered by a close associate succumbing to AIDS.<ref>{{cite news| title=Dining on Arena Floor for AIDS Benefit| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/26/us/dining-on-arena-floor-for-aids-benefit.html| first=Marian| last=Burros| author-link=Marian Burros| date=September 26, 1988| newspaper=The New York Times| department=B| page=4| quote=But the chefs and dinner committee co-chairmen were the heroes of the day and were introduced at the end of the meal by Julia Child, the woman who made cooking fashionable in America. ''It's a wonderful gaggle of chefs,'' said Mrs. Child as the audience cheered and chanted ''Julia, Julia, Julia.''| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Just a Pinch of Prejudice| url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2007/04/02/just-a-pinch-of-prejudice| first=Laura| last=Shapiro| author-link=Laura Shapiro| date=April 2, 2007| magazine=[[Boston (magazine)|Boston]]| quote=...she found homosexuality outlandish—not immoral, and certainly not to be criminalized, but a rude disruption in the natural order of things.| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Nora Ephron: Stirring the Pot| url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/film/2009/08/07/stirring-pot#article-content| first=Brandon| last=Voss| author-link=Brandon Voss| date=August 7, 2009| magazine=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]| quote=I believe that Julia Child was homophobic out of ignorance, but she became very good friends with lots of the gay men in the food business and forgave them all for being in the food business.| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title='Julia' Review: Glossy, Surface-Level Julia Child Documentary Sticks to a Familiar Recipe| url=https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/julia-review-julia-child-1235055307| first=Guy| last=Lodge| date=September 3, 2021| magazine= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]| quote=It's mentioned, too, that she held homophobic beliefs prior to becoming an AIDS activist in the 1980s, before the subject is swiftly dropped in favor of further generic "food is love" appraisals from her acolytes.| access-date=November 4, 2021}}</ref>

In the mid-1990s, as part of her work with the American Institute of Wine and Food, Child became increasingly concerned about children's food education.

She starred in four more series in the 1990s that featured guest chefs: ''Cooking with Master Chefs'', ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs'', ''[[Baking with Julia]]'', and ''[[Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home]]''. She collaborated with [[Jacques Pépin]] many times for television programs and cookbooks. All of Child's books during this time stemmed from the television series of the same names.

Child's use of ingredients like butter and cream has been questioned by food critics and modern-day nutritionists. She addressed these criticisms throughout her career, predicting that a "fanatical fear of food" would take over the country's dining habits, and that focusing too much on nutrition takes the pleasure from enjoying food.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/garden/savoring-the-world-according-to-julia.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Savoring the World According to Julia| first=Molly| last=O'Neill| date=October 11, 1989| url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24julia.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=After 48 Years, Julia Child Has a Big Best Seller, Butter and All| first=Stephanie| last=Clifford| date=August 23, 2009| url-access=subscription}}</ref> In a 1990 interview, Child said, "Everybody is overreacting. If fear of food continues, it will be the death of [[gastronomy]] in the United States. Fortunately, the French don't suffer from the same hysteria we do. We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/20/garden/julia-child-boiling-answers-her-critics.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Julia Child Boiling, Answers Her Critics| first=Carol| last=Lawson| date=June 19, 1990| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

[[Julia Child's kitchen]], designed by her husband, was the setting for three of her television shows. It is now on display at the [[National Museum of American History]] in Washington, D.C. Beginning with ''In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs,'' the Childs' home kitchen in Cambridge was fully transformed into a functional set, with TV-quality lighting, three cameras positioned to catch all angles in the room, and a massive center island with a gas stovetop on one side and an electric stovetop on the other, but leaving the rest of the Childs' appliances alone, including "my wall oven with its squeaking door."<ref>{{cite book |title=In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs |last1=Child |first1=Julia |last2=Barr |first2=Nancy Verde |year=1995 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0-6794-3896-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/injuliaskitchenw0000chil/page/n15/mode/2up?q=squeaking+door |page=17 |chapter=Acknowledgments}}</ref> This kitchen backdrop hosted nearly all of Child's 1990s television series.