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Any disaster is a learning process.

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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
Disaster
Failure
Learning
Process

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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
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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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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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If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.
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The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
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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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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
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Eating is the secret to good cooking.
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I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
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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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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
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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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A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.
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Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!
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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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Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.
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I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
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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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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
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