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Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

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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
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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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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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The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
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There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.
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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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Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
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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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It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.
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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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It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
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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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Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
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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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If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.
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In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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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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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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Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.
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