Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Of course, our servings had assumed that one was making at least a three-course meal à la française. But that wasn't the… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake.… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white… — Julia Child Copy Share
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but… — Julia Child Copy Share
We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively. — Julia Child Copy Share
If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or… — Julia Child Copy Share
The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been… — Julia Child Copy Share
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of… — Julia Child Copy Share
“Standing up through the Citroen's open sunroof, my six-foot-three-inch, red-cheeked sister pointed a long, trembling finger at the perpetrator and with maximum indignation yelled:… — Julia Child Copy Share
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. — Julia Child Copy Share
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was… — Julia Child Copy Share
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background. — Julia Child Copy Share
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share
Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which… — Julia Child Copy Share
