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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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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 only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.
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I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.
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This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
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We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.
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I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
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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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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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In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
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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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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.
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I think careful cooking is love, don't you?
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