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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 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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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.
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The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
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I love to teach - that's my role.
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Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.
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Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.
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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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Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
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Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
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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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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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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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Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.
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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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When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
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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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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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Too much trouble, Too expensive, or Who will know the difference are death knells for good food.
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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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