Cooking Quote by Alex Prud'Homme

Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck…

— Nadia Giosia

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-but there she…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Julia’s attitude toward British food—that it was inedible, that it had little relevant history apart from being inedible, and that a more sensible population…

— Laura Shapiro

“Even on TV, she was larger than life. At fifty, she was a vibrant, vivacious woman, not obviously pretty or delicate, but handsome, and…

— Bob Spitz

“Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa…

— Julie Powell

“She let her head sink, until her brow met the varnished glass. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for…

— Sarah Waters

Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather…

— Kate Atkinson

“Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Life could be very distracting, thought Isabel. And that was a good thing. It kept her from focusing on things that couldn't be changed,…

— Susan Wiggs

“Francesca had grown up watching me, like I'd grown up watching Sheila. She said I was inspiring, but what had I inspired? There was…

— Layne Fargo

“Julia did very well,' said Selena, 'not to fall into the lagoon. How beastly of that woman to suggest she'd had too much to…

— Sarah Caudwell

Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most…

— Meryl Streep