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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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Too much trouble, Too expensive, or Who will know the difference are death knells for good food.
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It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.
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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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If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
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I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.
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Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
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I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
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One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.
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I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
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There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.
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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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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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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.
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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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I think careful cooking is love, don't you?
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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
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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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