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

Julia Child

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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 problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.
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Sooner or later the public will forget you the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.
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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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Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!
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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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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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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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Eating is the secret to good cooking.
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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
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A party without cake is really just a meeting.
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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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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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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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The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.
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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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Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!
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