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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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People

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In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.
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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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Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.
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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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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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If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.
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Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
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I think careful cooking is love, don't you?
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I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
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People who love to eat are always the best people.
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The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.
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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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Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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Romance is the icing but love is the cake.
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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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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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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.
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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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...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
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