Julia Child Quotes About Cooking
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Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
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I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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Never apologize for your cooking.
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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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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.
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You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.
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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.
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I think careful cooking is love, don't you?
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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.
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Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.
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As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.
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Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.
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Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
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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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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
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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.
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Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.
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Eating is the secret to good cooking.
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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.
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Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.
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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.
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.
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Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
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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 grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.
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Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
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In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.
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To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.
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