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

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

Small helpings, no seconds, no snacking, and a little bit of everything. - Julia Child

I was in pure, flavorful heaven at the Cordon Bleu.

Tears mess up your makeup.

Pro-choice is the only way to be
because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

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!

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

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

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

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

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

It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

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

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.

No one's more important than people.

With enough butter, anything is good

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

Had been a year earlier. Looking back, it had been a year of growth. Paul's personality had enlarged, he'd gained further wisdom, if not salary,

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

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

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

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot ...

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

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

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

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

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

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

You must have discipline to have fun.

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.

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

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

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

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

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

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.

Operational proof ... it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

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

Our bodies hummed with contentment.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.
Source: Esquire Magazine, June 2000 original edition

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.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

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

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

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

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

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.

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.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

My father was in charge of managing the farm.

Of course, an old wine is like an old lady, and traveling can disturb her.

I love to teach - that's my role.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

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

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.

If it weren't for Julia Child, I might never have moved past brown rice and tofu. Worse, I might still be afraid of being less than perfect.

You don't spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

A party without cake is just a meeting

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

Well, all I know is this - nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

Never apologize for your cooking.

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

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Fat gives things flavor.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

I could at times be overly emotional, but was lucky to have the kind of orderly mind that is good at categorizing things

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