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I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
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Pasadena
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Julia Carolyn Child
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I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
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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 would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.
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I was 32 when I started cooking up until then, I just ate.
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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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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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In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.
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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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One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
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Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.
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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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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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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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When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
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Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.
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Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
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