The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again — 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
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 have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. — 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
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
The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. — 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… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“I opened the school's booklet, found the recipes from the examination — oeufs mollets with sauce béarnaise, côtelettes de veau en surprise… — 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
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
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in… — 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
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. — 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 enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking. — 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
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
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
