Julia Child
I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.Collection: Thinking
I love to teach - that's my role.Collection: Roles
I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.Collection: Thinking
The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.Collection: People
I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.Collection: Vegetables
My father was in charge of managing the farm.Collection: Father
I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinadesCollection: Twenties
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.Collection: Art
I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.Collection: Art
The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.Collection: Happy Times
You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.Collection: Beautiful
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.Collection: Fighting
Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.Collection: Drinking
The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.Collection: Grief
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.Collection: Apples
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.Collection: Block
Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?Collection: Home
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.Collection: Cooking
In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.Collection: Sports
Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Mean
The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.Collection: Generosity
It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.Collection: Passion
Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Wine
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.Collection: Art
I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.Collection: Years
Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.Collection: Drinking
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.Collection: Father
Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!Collection: Wine
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.Collection: Food
The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.Collection: Kitchen
You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Taken
Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.Collection: Confused
My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.Collection: Meals
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.Collection: Believe
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.Collection: Book
Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.Collection: Hands
Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of lifeCollection: Wine
There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.Collection: Kitchen
We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.Collection: Looks
I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyenaCollection: Car
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.Collection: Home
Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.Collection: Remember You
Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.Collection: Differences
I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.Collection: Watches
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.Collection: Flip
Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.Collection: Often Is