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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
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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Any disaster is a learning process.
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I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.
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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 don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.
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Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?
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Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
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The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.
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If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
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No one's more important than people.
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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.
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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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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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We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.
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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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My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.
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Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
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I was 32 when I started cooking up until then, I just ate.
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You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
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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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