Top 204 Quotes & Sayings by Julia Child - Page 2

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

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

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.

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

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 must have discipline to have fun.

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

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.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

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

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

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

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.

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.

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

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

Any disaster is a learning process.

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

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

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

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

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

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

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

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

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

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

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

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.

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

Never apologize for your cooking.

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

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

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.

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

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

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

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

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.

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.

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

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

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

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

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

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

Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

Fat gives things flavor.

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

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

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.

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

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