Julia Child famous quotes

People who love to eat are always the best people.
-- Julia Child

#Love #Food #People

My father was in charge of managing the farm.
-- Julia Child

#Father

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

#Attitude #Block #Real

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 we were well-off.
-- Julia Child

#Father #Real #Land

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
-- Julia Child

#Food #Inspiration #Cooking

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades
-- Julia Child

#Twenties #Four #Hours

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

#Positive #Food #Health

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.
-- Julia Child

#Eye #Animal #People

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
-- Julia Child

#Thinking #Cooking #Kitchen

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

#Roles #Teach

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

#Recipes #Slave #Cooks

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
-- Julia Child

#Art #Cooking #Levels

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
-- Julia Child

#Inspirational #Leadership #Sports

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

#Art #People #Degrees

...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
-- Julia Child

#Too Much #Way #Trouble

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.
-- Julia Child

#Thinking #People #Trying

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

#Food #Kitchen #Lambs

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

#Class #Kind #Innocent

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.
-- Julia Child

#Drawing #People #Creative

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
-- Julia Child

#Thinking #Meat #Doe

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
-- Julia Child

#Food #Plates #Fingers

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

#People #Scary #Fishes

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.
-- Julia Child

#Long #Sexuality #Homosexuality

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

#Cooking #Important #World

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

#Fun #Mistake #Inspiration

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

#Happiness #Secret #Littles

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.
-- Julia Child

#Mother #Independent #Massachusetts

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

#Civilization #Kitchen #Onions

I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.
-- Julia Child

#Thinking #Shopping #Ideas

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

#Funny #Food #Waiting

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

#Taken #Cooking #Ordinary

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

#Food #Recipes #Cookbook

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

#Beets #Pressure #Freak

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
-- Julia Child

#Careers #People #Important

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

#Vegetables #Roots #Carrots

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.
-- Julia Child

#Fun #Effort #Together

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

#Smell #Lovely #Degrees

A party without cake is really just a meeting.
-- Julia Child

#Party #Food #Cake

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

#Fun #Events #Care

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

#Sports #Art #Food

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.
-- Julia Child

#Long #Belief #Conservative

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

#Children #People #Enjoy Life

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

#War #Patriotic #Would Be

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

#Positive Attitude #Air #People

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.
-- Julia Child

#Thanksgiving #Soul #Dining

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

#Taken #Beef #Crowns

Life itself is the proper binge.
-- Julia Child

#Life #Food #Weight Loss

With enough butter, anything is good
-- Julia Child

#Inspirational #Enough

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!
-- Julia Child

#Kitchen #Speak #Conviction

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
-- Julia Child

#Believe #Winning #Awards

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
-- Julia Child

#Food #Cooking

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.
-- Julia Child

#Flip #Conviction

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

#Food #Men #People

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

#Thinking #Cooking #Culinary

Never apologize for your cooking.
-- Julia Child

#Cooking #Apologizing

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.
-- Julia Child

#Hands #Boss #Care

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
-- Julia Child

#Years #Seven #Thirty

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.
-- Julia Child

#Cooking #Way #Hell

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
-- Julia Child

#Confused #Reflection #Emotional

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

#Thinking #Doctors #Eggs

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

#Kitchen #Matter #Apologizing

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

#Wine #Cat #Sunshine

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

#Wine #Essentials #Ingredients

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
-- Julia Child

#Cooking #Culinary

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

#Food #Use #Culinary

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

#Education #Learning #Something You Love

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?
-- Julia Child

#Food #Taste #Bread

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

#People #Smoking #Lovely

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again
-- Julia Child

#Technique #Looks #Recipes

You must have discipline to have fun.
-- Julia Child

#Teamwork #Fun #Discipline

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

#Wine #Cooking #Sometimes

Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.
-- Julia Child

#Home #Vegetables #Soup

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

#Work #Silly #Memorable

Eating is the secret to good cooking.
-- Julia Child

#Cooking #Secret #Eating

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.
-- Julia Child

#Food #Thinking #Cooking

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?
-- Julia Child

#Thinking #Cooking #Careful

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.
-- Julia Child

#Drinking #Wine #Kitchen

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

#Sight #Meals #Fads

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

#Art #Mean #Cooking

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

#Food #Poultry #Bears

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

#Believe #Food #Thinking

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

#Sorry #Taken #People

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.
-- Julia Child

#Drinking #Wine #Experts

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
-- Julia Child

#Food #Mean #Cooking

Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
-- Julia Child

#Drama #Done #Pancakes

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
-- Julia Child

#Kitchen #Use #Approach

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.
-- Julia Child

#Thinking #Giving #Bird

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

#Love #Anniversary #Marriage

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.
-- Julia Child

#Love Is #Cake #Romance

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

#Wine #Maturity #Age

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.
-- Julia Child

#Block #Food #Everyday

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

#Marriage #Couple #Bread

Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.
-- Julia Child

#Drinking #Food #Wine

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.
-- Julia Child

#Drama #Important #Bangs

Fat gives things flavor.
-- Julia Child

#Food #Weight Loss #Giving

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

#Looks

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.
-- Julia Child

#Wine #Littles #Helping

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena
-- Julia Child

#Car #Tea #Want

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

#Fighting #Blood #Law

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.
-- Julia Child

#Apples #Cooking #Secret