Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. Julia Child Read Quote
As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time. Julia Child Read Quote
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men’s underwear. Julia Child Read Quote
The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months – even years. Julia Child Read Quote
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well. Julia Child Read Quote
In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook ‘la cuisine bourgeoise’ – good, traditional French home cooking. Julia Child Read Quote
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it’s hard for young people today, don’t you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. Julia Child Read Quote
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. Julia Child Read Quote
The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure. Julia Child Read Quote
