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
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
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
“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
We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. — 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
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
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
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
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
The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking.… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner,… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make… Usually one's cooking is better… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes,… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I've always had a healthy appetite, especially for the wonderful meat and… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served… — 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