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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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