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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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Eating is the secret to good cooking.
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I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.
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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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Never apologize for your cooking.
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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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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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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I love to teach - that's my role.
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.
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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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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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The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
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The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.
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Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
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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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If you're afraid of butter, use cream.
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...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
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