"Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday……" — Julia Child
"Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba."
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168 Quotes by Julia Child
Julia Child has 168 quotes on this site.
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be…
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Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
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I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you…
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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out…
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do…
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll…
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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of…
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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee.…
— Laurie Colwin
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Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly…
— Howell Raines
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There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank…
— Joseph Campbell
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I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better…
— James Earl Jones
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Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into…
— Rex Stout
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Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box…
— Sarah Dessen
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No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-"…
— Nalini Singh
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The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as…
— Nalini Singh
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