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One Quotes by Julia Child
- I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I…
- I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules,…
- I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter.…
- I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine.…
- 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 and eternal.
- How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
- Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do…
- We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.
- Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
- It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and…
- My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in…
- The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time…
- One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to…
- ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
- Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to…
- I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to…
- Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
- I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks…
- Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes,…
- The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no…
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