I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. — Julia Child Copy Share 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… — 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
Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of… — 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
“Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis.… — 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
Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding… — 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
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
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
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Of course, our servings had assumed that one was making at least a three-course meal à la française. But that wasn't the… — 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
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
People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the… — 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
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey,… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the… — 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
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
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
When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly… — 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
In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell… — 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… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“I suddenly discovered that cooking was a rich and layered and endlessly fascinating subject. The best way to describe it is to… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning… — 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
“The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base… — 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
