Quotes from Julia Child

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.