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Cooking is one failure after another, and that’s how you finally learn.

Julia Child

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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Block Cook Food
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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Lovely Smell Tomato
Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid … Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
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Age Maturity Wine
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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Conviction Kitchen Speak
People who love to eat are always the best people.
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Eat Food Good Love
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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Choices Should Way
Too much trouble,” “Too expensive,” or “Who will know the difference” are death knells for good food.
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Difference Much Trouble
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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Cook Recipes Slave
A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.
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Cat Sunshine Wine
Cooking is one failure after another, and that’s how you finally learn.
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Cooking Culinary 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.
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Bear Cook Secret
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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Learn Matter More Thinking
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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Career Friendship People
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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Care Event Fun
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
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Civilization Kitchen Onions
Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.
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Emotional Food Love

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