Quotes from Julia Child

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you?

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chauffeur-den mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat.

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

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

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.