Julia Child Quotes

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

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

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

"I had a lack of confidence, which caused me to back down from forcefully stated positions; an i was overly emotional at the expense of careful, "scientific" thought. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was"

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.

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

the servantless American cook who enjoyed producing something wonderful to eat — would feel the same way.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

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

sole à la normande,

And the great lesson embedded in the book is that no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. 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!

When you know your time in a place is running out, you try to fix such moments in your mind’s eye.

Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

Dorothy says she ducks invitations to dine with young married people because she can’t, at her age, take the casserole any more — she described one composed of pork chops and canned Bing cherries, after which she came home and was sick.