Julia Child Quotes

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.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

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

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.

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

With enough butter, anything is good

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

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

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

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

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

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

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.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

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.

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

The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break

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

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

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.

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.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

You must have discipline to have fun.

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

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

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.

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

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.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Fat gives things flavor.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

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

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

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