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 —… - Julia Child

Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should. Good results require that one take time and care.

"Julie's cookery is actually improving," Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. "I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is. It's simpler, more classical.... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her."

But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste like chicken: it should be so good that even a perfectly simple, buttery roast should be a delight.