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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
Chef
Cook
Television Presenter
Writer
Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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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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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
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Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
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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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Fat gives things flavor.
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Any disaster is a learning process.
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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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Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
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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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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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