Quotes by Julia Child

About Julia Child:

Julia Carolyn Child is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.
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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 m...

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I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't k...

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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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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.

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

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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.

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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female Go...

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Life itself is the proper binge.

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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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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.

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I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJulia Child
  • DescriptionAmerican chef
  • AliasesJulia Carolyn Child
  • BornAugust 15, 1912
  • DiedAugust 13, 2004
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Peabody Award; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Daytime Emmy Award; Emmy Award; National Book Award