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I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
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Pasadena
California
Julia Carolyn Child
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Any disaster is a learning process.
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I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
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The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.
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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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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'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.
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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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The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
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My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.
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Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
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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 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 is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
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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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Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
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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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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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With enough butter, anything is good
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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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She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.
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