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
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
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
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all… — 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 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
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
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life. — 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
The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable… — 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
People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life. — 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
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 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
