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
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught… — 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
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
I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's… — 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 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
I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. — 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
People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own… — 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
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
