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I love to teach - that's my role.

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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
Role
Roles
Teach
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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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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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Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
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We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.
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If you're afraid of butter, use cream.
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If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.
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With enough butter, anything is good
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
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Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.
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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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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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A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.
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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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Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!
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As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.
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Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
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Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
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One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.
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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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