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Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
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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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
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Fat gives things flavor.
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The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
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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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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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It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.
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My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.
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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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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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I love to teach - that's my role.
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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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No one's more important than people.
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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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How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
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Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
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