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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
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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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I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
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Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
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The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.
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If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.
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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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A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.
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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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Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
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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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Any disaster is a learning process.
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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.
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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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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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If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
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Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.
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No one's more important than people.
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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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Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
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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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