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.
JULIA CHILDOne 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.
More Julia Child Quotes
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Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.
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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.
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Fine # wine is a living liquid … Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
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Cooking is one failure after another, and that’s how you finally learn.
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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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I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I’m cooking.
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A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.
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People who love to eat are always the best people.
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Too much trouble,” “Too expensive,” or “Who will know the difference” are death knells for good food.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
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