Editing Julia Child (section)

==Later years==
[[File:Julia Child 1994.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Child in 1994]]
After her friend [[Simone Beck]] died in 1991 at the age of 87, Child relinquished [[La Pitchoune]] after a month-long stay in June 1992 with her family, her niece, Phila, and close friend and biographer [[Noël Riley Fitch]]. She turned the keys over to Jean Fischbacher's sister, just as she and Paul had promised nearly 30 years earlier. That year, Child spent five days in Sicily at the invitation of Regaleali Winery. American journalist [[Bob Spitz]] spent a brief time with Child during that period while he was researching and writing his then working title, ''History of Eating and Cooking in America''. In 1993, Child voiced Dr. Juliet Bleeb in the animated film, ''[[We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)|We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story]]''.

Spitz took notes and made many recordings of his conversation with Child, and these later formed the basis of a secondary biography on Child, published August 7, 2012 (Knopf), five days before the centennial of her birthdate.<ref name="dearie">{{cite book| last=Spitz| first=Bob| title=Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child| publisher=[[Vintage Books]]| date=April 23, 2013| isbn=978-0-307-47341-7| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307473417}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/biography-reveals-insecurities-plagued-julia-child-1.913561 |title=Biography reveals insecurities plagued Julia Child |website=[[CTV News]] |date=August 7, 2012}}</ref> Paul Child, who was ten years older than his wife, died in 1994 after living in a nursing home for five years following a series of strokes in 1989.<ref name="MLIF2">{{cite book| last=Child| first=Julia| author2=Prud'homme, Alex| title=My Life in France| publisher=Random House| year=2006| pages=329–333| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cKLQO4bgDQC&pg=PA85| isbn=978-0-307-27769-5}}</ref>

In 2001, Child moved to a retirement community, donating her house and office to Smith College, which later sold the house.<ref>{{cite press release| url=http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/01-096.html| title=Gift from Julia Child Spurs Construction of First Campus Center at her Alma Mater, Smith College| publisher=Smith College| date=May 6, 2002| access-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref>

She donated her kitchen, which her husband had designed with high counters to accommodate her height, and which served as the set for three of her television series, to the [[Smithsonian]]'s [[National Museum of American History]], where it is now on display.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/julia-childs-kitchen| title=Julia Child's Kitchen| website=National Museum of American History| date=March 14, 2012| access-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref> Her copper pots and pans were on display at [[Copia (museum)|Copia]] in [[Napa, California]], until August 2009 when they were reunited with her kitchen at the National Museum of American History in [[Washington, D.C.]]