--- title: "10 Knows Quotes By Julia Child" description: "10 Knows quotes by Julia Child. Plus more from Julia Child and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/julia-child-1522_death_too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-wi_2959828.jpg" --- > [Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-will-know-the-difference-are-2/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/julia-child-1522_death_too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-wi_2959828.jpg) > [I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-love-good-fresh-food-cooked-by-someone-who-knows-what-he-s-doing/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/julia-child-1522_food_i-love-good-fresh-food-cooked-by-someone_2107364.jpg) > [Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/always-remember-if-you-re-alone-in-the-kitchen-and-you-drop-the-lamb/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c1/julia-child-1522_cooking_always-remember-if-you-re-alone-in-the-k_711936.jpg) > [The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-shellfish-thing-is-very-scary-you-have-to-know-the-people-you-buy/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/julia-child-1522_fishes_the-shellfish-thing-is-very-scary-you-ha_1780466.jpg) > [Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-will-know-the-difference-are/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff4/julia-child-1522_art_too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-wi_488184.jpg) > [Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/learn-how-to-cook-that-s-the-way-to-save-money-you-don-t-save-it/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/096/julia-child-1522_buying_learn-how-to-cook-that-s-the-way-to-save_116127.jpg) > [Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/cooking-is-just-as-creative-and-imaginative-an-activity-as-drawing-or/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b28/julia-child-1522_activity_cooking-is-just-as-creative-and-imaginat_2803947.jpg) > [In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/in-france-cooking-is-a-serious-art-form-and-a-national-sport-i-think/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/julia-child-1522_art_in-france-cooking-is-a-serious-art-form_2388178.jpg) > [The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-problem-for-cookery-bookery-writers-like-me-is-to-understand-the/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/julia-child-1522_book_the-problem-for-cookery-bookery-writers_2362172.jpg) > [the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-more-experience-you-have-the-more-interesting-cooking-is-because/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/julia-child-1522_able_the-more-experience-you-have-the-more-in_859216.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Julia Child > [I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-had-my-first-french-meal-and-i-never-got-over-it-it-was-just/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-are-going-to-flip-something-you-must-have-the-courage-of-your/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/my-father-was-in-real-estate-banking-and-land-management-as-family/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-never-feel-lonely-in-the-kitchen-food-is-very-friendly/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/we-are-so-bemused-by-our-own-petard-that-we-are-unable-to-look-at/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-re-buying-tomatoes-pick-them-up-and-smell-them-they-should/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-perfect-dressing-is-essential-to-the-perfect-salad-and-i-see-no/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-think-one-of-the-terrible-things-today-is-that-people-have-this/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [“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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/standing-up-through-the-citroen-s-open-sunroof-my-six-foot-three-inch/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-only-real-stumbling-block-is-fear-of-failure-in-cooking-you-ve/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/in-the-1960s-you-could-eat-anything-you-wanted-and-of-course-people/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-was-kind-of-an-innocent-hayseed-from-a-middle-class-utterly/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/there-are-only-four-great-arts-music-painting-sculpture-and/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [“It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/it-was-fun-although-we-felt-like-pawns-or-prawns-in-the-maelstrom/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/many-of-the-delicious-soups-you-eat-in-french-homes-and-little/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/julia-child/#itemlist", "name": "10 Knows Quotes By Julia Child", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Too much trouble,\" \"Too expensive,\" or \"Who will know the difference\" are death knells for good food.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Julia Child" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-will-know-the-difference-are-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/julia-child-1522_death_too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-wi_2959828.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/julia-child-1522_death_too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-wi_2959828.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/julia-child-1522_death_too-much-trouble-too-expensive-or-who-wi_2959828.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Too much trouble,\" \"Too expensive,\" or \"Who will know the difference\" are death knells for good food.” — Julia Child", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Julia Child" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-love-good-fresh-food-cooked-by-someone-who-knows-what-he-s-doing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/julia-child-1522_food_i-love-good-fresh-food-cooked-by-someone_2107364.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/julia-child-1522_food_i-love-good-fresh-food-cooked-by-someone_2107364.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/julia-child-1522_food_i-love-good-fresh-food-cooked-by-someone_2107364.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.” — Julia Child", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. 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