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“Bon Appétit”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

“It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.”
― Julia Child

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
― Julia Child

“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”
― Julia Child

“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”
― Julia Child

“Fat gives things flavor.”
― Julia Child

“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”
― Julia Child

“Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again”
― Julia Child, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking

“Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.”
― Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking

“Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.”
― Julie Powell, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

“Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“We ate the lunch with painful politeness and avoided discussing its taste. I made sure not to apologize for it. This was a rule of mine.
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make...
Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is vile,...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile- and learn from her mistakes.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“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.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

“But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.”
― Julia Child, My Life in France

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