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I was in pure, flavorful heaven at the Cordon Bleu. — Julia Child

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The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them. — Julia Child

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MODERATION.SMALL HELPINGS. SAMPLE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH. — Julia Child

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I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing. — Julia Child

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A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine. — Julia Child

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But how nice it is that one can come to know someone just through correspondence, and become really passionate friends. — Julia Child

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If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook. — Julia Child

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If you're afraid of butter, use cream. — Julia Child

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I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking. — Julia Child

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Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. — Julia Child

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The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all. — Julia Child

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Well, all I know is this - nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used. — Julia Child

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This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! — Julia Child

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It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire. — Julia Child

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The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen. — Julia Child

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I think the inner person is the most important ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important. — Julia Child

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Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you. — Julia Child

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Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude? — Julia Child

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The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from. — Julia Child

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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. — Julia Child

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In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for. — Julia Child

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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 people a thing or two. That's what's important. — Julia Child

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A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe. — Julia Child

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It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor. — Julia Child

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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

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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, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook. — Julia Child

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I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page. — Julia Child

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Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life — Julia Child

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After we'd moved into 81, we had placed an order for a phone, and waited. First a man came by to see if we lived where we said we did. Then two men visited to make a "study" of our situation. Then another man appeared to find out if we really wanted a phone. The process was very French, and made me laugh, especially when I thought of how quickly such a transaction would have taken place in the States. — Julia Child

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IN EGGPLANT CASSEROLE, — Julia Child

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I'm awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today's dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food. — Julia Child

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Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever? — Julia Child

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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 to be friendly. — Julia Child

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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 with them all the time. — Julia Child

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I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy. — Julia Child

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A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life ... whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms. — Julia Child

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The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and their wares, then I would not go home with the freshest legumes or cuts of meat in my basket. They certainly made me work for my supper-- but, oh, what suppers! — Julia Child

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I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. — Julia Child

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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 above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor. — Julia Child

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I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better. — Julia Child

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I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved the people, the food, the lay of the land, the civilized atmosphere, and the generous pace of life. — Julia Child

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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 butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything. — Julia Child

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I believe in red meat. I've often said: red meat and gin. — Julia Child

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The German birds didn't taste as good as their French cousins, nor did the frozen Dutch chickens we bought in the local supermarkets. 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 one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear. — Julia Child

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The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. — Julia Child

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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, you can do pretty well. — Julia Child

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Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know? — Julia Child

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The spectacle of this lovely nation, with its great agricultural wealth and its cultural riches , continually stepping on its own toes, made me wonder if France suffered a kind of national neurosis — Julia Child

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No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize, — Julia Child

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It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom. — Julia Child

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I love to teach - that's my role. — Julia Child

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I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat. — Julia Child

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If it weren't for Julia Child, I might never have moved past brown rice and tofu. Worse, I might still be afraid of being less than perfect. — Julia Child

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

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Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it! — Julia Child

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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 no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say. — Julia Child

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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 is about as nice a valentine as you can give. — Julia Child

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It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. — Julia Child

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I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes. — Julia Child

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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 sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years. — Julia Child

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I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth, — Julia Child

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You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. — Julia Child

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When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall. — Julia Child

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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking. — Julia Child

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I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole. — Julia Child

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Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it. — Julia Child

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The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot ... — Julia Child

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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 always have some clean air to breathe. — Julia Child

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A party without cake is just a meeting — Julia Child

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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. — Julia Child

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You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life — Julia Child

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In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. — Julia Child

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The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed. — Julia Child

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The more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create. — Julia Child

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The average Frenchman would shrug, as if to say: These notions of yours are all very fascinating, no doubt, but we make a decent living. Nobody has ulcers. I have time to work on my monograph about Balzac, and my foreman enjoys his espaliered pear trees. I think as a matter of fact, we do not wish to make the changes that you suggest. — Julia Child

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Mastering the Art of French Cooking ... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish. — Julia Child

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I like to cook for 2, or for 4 or 6 at the most 8 people. Beyond that you get into quantity cooking and that is just not my field at all. The last time we had 12 for a sit-down dinner and I did all the cooking, and Paul and I did all the setting up, serving, and washing up afterwards, I said never again. I'll do a buffet, but I don't consider that civilized dining; it is feeding, and I like to sit down at a well-set table. — Julia Child

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I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. — Julia Child

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The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. — Julia Child

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Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child

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Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes. — Julia Child

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Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby. — Julia Child

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We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time. — Julia Child

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I think every woman should have a blowtorch. — Julia Child

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When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time. — Julia Child

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There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables. — Julia Child

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Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. — Julia Child

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I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher. — Julia Child

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We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event. — Julia Child

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I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips. — Julia Child

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No one's more important than people. — Julia Child

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You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it. — Julia Child

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With enough butter, anything is good — Julia Child

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People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life. — Julia Child

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Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.
Source: Esquire Magazine, June 2000 original edition — Julia Child

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Tears mess up your makeup. — Julia Child

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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child

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You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always. — Julia Child

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I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker. — Julia Child

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Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die. — Julia Child