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

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
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Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.
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The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
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Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.
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If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
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Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
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Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.
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I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.
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My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.
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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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People who love to eat are always the best people.
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The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break
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I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
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Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
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People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.
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It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
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We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.
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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.
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