If you’re buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that’s when they develop their flavor.
JULIA CHILDFood like love is a deeply emotional matter.
More Julia Child Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Remember, ‘No one’s more important than people’! In other words, friendship is the most important thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
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Pro-choice is the only way to be– because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
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Cooking is one failure after another, and that’s how you finally learn.
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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.
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People who love to eat are always the best people.
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I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I’m cooking.
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Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you’ll have a marvelous time!
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Fine # wine is a living liquid … Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
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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.
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Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.
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I don’t think about whether people will remember me or not. I’ve been an ok person. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve taught people a thing or two. That’s what’s important.
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It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
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We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.
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