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

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
Chef
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Television Presenter
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Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.
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The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
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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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Never apologize for your cooking.
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I think every woman should have a blowtorch.
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Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.
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A party without cake is really just a meeting.
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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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Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
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Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
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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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It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
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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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If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.
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I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.
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You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
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