Julia Child Quotes
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Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
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If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.
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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
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How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?
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Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.
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Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?
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People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.
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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.
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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 there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?
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How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
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Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
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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.
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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.
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Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.
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I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
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Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
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The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
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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.
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...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.
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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?
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A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.
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Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again
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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.
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Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.
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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 that area.
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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
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Never apologize for your cooking.
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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.
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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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