You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret… — 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
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — 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
One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn… — 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
