Skip to content

Cooking Quotes by Julia Child

47 Cooking quotes by Julia Child

All Cooking quotes Julia Child’s page

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure, so a what‑the‑hell attitude helps you keep cooking. The quotes tell you not to apologize for your food and that dropping a lamb is fine because nobody will notice. They also remind you that cooking can be a fun hobby and a way to teach others.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

Image

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

Image

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

Image

Never apologize for your cooking.

Image

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Image

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

Image

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Image

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Image

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Image

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Image

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Image

“I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.”

Image

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other…

Image

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

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…

Image

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

Image

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut…

Image

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a…

Image

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure…

Image

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to…

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…

Image

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is…

Image

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the…

Image

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had…

Image

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle…

Image

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art…

Image

“Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis.…

Image

the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning…

Image

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the…

Image

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every…

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…

Image

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Image

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

Image

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

Image

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

Image

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

Image

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret…

Image

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Image

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you…

Image

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Image

Other authors on Cooking

More by Julia Child

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white…

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

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…

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

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…

The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been…

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of…

“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:…

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was…

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

“It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.”

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…