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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
Chef
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Television Presenter
Writer
Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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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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Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
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Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.
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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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I was 32 when I started cooking up until then, I just ate.
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We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.
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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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Fat gives things flavor.
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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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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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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
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I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
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