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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

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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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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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Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
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Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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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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Fat gives things flavor.
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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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There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.
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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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I think careful cooking is love, don't you?
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If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.
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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
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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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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 think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
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With enough butter, anything is good
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Never apologize for your cooking.
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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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A party without cake is really just a meeting.
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