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.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

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

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

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.

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

Life itself is the proper binge.

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

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

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

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

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

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.

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

Never apologize for your cooking.

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.

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.

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.