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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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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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Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?
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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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I think every woman should have a blowtorch.
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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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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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A party without cake is really just a meeting.
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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
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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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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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People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.
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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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Tears mess up your makeup.
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Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
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Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
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It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.
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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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Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
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