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
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
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
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 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
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
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
One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat. — 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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“I like to cook for 2, or for 4 or 6 at the most 8 people. Beyond that you get into quantity… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“We ate the lunch with painful politeness and avoided discussing its taste. I made sure not to apologize for it. This was… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art… — 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
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
![“Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready…” quote by Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c99/julia-child-1522_boss_ye-gods-but-you-re-not-standing-around-h_3177866.jpg)
