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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
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Television Presenter
Writer
Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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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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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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It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.
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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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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 only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
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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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Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
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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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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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I love to teach - that's my role.
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The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.
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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 have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
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If you're afraid of butter, use cream.
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Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.
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A party without cake is really just a meeting.
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the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.
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Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
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