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
“I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one's hostess starts in… — 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'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
“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
Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going… — 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
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
the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning… — 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
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you… — 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
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure… — 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
I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn. — 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
Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to… — 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
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 Image
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
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 Image
We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 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
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 Image
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
