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
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn. — 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
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
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again — Julia Child Copy Share Image
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
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
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 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
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share
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
We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively. — Julia Child Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background. — Julia Child Copy Share
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share
Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which… — Julia Child Copy Share
