Julia Child Quotes - Page 6

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

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

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

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.

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

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

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

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

I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? ... I, for one, would much rather swoon over a few thin slices of prime beefsteak, or one small serving of chocolate mousse, or a sliver of foie gras than indulge to the full on such nonentities as fat-free gelatin puddings.

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

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

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

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

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

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

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

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.

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

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.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

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.

There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.