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““...small helpings, no seconds, no snacking, and a little bit of everything. - Julia Child””

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I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white…

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If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

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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…

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I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

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We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

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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…

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The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been…

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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of…

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“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:…

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The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

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In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was…

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I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

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My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

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Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it going on. She is like the horse that came…

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“Une maison sans chat, c'est la vie sans soleil. (A house without a cat is like live without sunshine.) -- One of Julia Child's…

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Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can…

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“You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it…

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“Flavor-wise, chicken started moving in the wrong direction when the high-energy diet appeared, so much so that Julia Child sounded the alarm in 1961.”

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