Julia Child Quotes

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

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

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

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

People who love to eat are always the best people.

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

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

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

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

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

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

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.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

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.

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

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

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.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

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

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!

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

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?

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

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.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

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.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

Life itself is the proper binge.

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

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.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

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

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

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