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Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

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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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Wine
Food

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It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.
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I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
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I was 32 when I started cooking up until then, I just ate.
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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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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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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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Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.
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Never apologize for your cooking.
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Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.
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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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I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
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Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
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