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

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

Julia Child

Sports, Art, Food

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.

Julia Child

Sports, Art, Mean

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

Julia Child

Art, Mean, Cooking

Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.15, Knopf

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

Julia Child

Art, Creative, Cooking

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Julia Child

Art, Sculpture, Four

Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.145, Anchor

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

Julia Child

Art, Differences, Cooking

Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.30, Knopf