Julia Child Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

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

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

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.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

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

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.

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.

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.