Julia Child
I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.Collection: Thinking
I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.Collection: White
Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.Collection: Wine
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.Collection: Cooking
No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.Collection: Kitchen
To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.Collection: Hard Work
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.Collection: Civilization
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.Collection: Inspirational
You must have discipline to have fun.Collection: Teamwork
As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.Collection: Drinking
I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.Collection: Sorry
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.Collection: Cooking
Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Wine
I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.Collection: Lonely
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.Collection: Believe
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.Collection: Thinking
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.Collection: Imagination
You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my lifeCollection: Marriage
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.Collection: Mean
You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.Collection: Education
I think careful cooking is love, don't you?Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Fun
One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.Collection: Important
If you're afraid of butter, use cream.Collection: Food
If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.Collection: Failing
A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.Collection: Food
We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.Collection: Fun
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!Collection: Kitchen
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe againCollection: Technique
A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.Collection: Children
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.Collection: Food
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.Collection: Creativity
Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.Collection: Food
Any disaster is a learning process.Collection: Failure
Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.Collection: Food
When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.Collection: Flip
Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.Collection: Food
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.Collection: Cooking
I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.Collection: Thinking
Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.Collection: Drama
The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right breakCollection: Eggs
There are reasons, and then there are excuses.Collection: Excuse
Never apologize for your cooking.Collection: Cooking
A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.Collection: Wine
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Art
Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.Collection: Mistake
Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!Collection: Knives