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Julia ChildFamous Julia Child Quotes
“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
Indirect quote on The National (CBC TV), Aug. 13
Julia Child Quotes about cooking
Source: Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times
“… no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.”
Source: My Life in France
Julia Child Quotes about life
Julia Child Quotes
“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
Origins of attribution could be a New York Times Magazine article by Joan Barthel ("How to Avoid TV Dinners While Watching TV" 7 August 1966, p. 34): "'The French Chef'...the program that can be campier than 'Batman,' farther-out than 'Lost in Space' and more penetrating than 'Meet the Press' as it probes the question: Can a Society be Great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?" Article quoted in for Life: The Biography of Julia Child http://books.google.com/books?id=GDDYYhUS4i0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=kleenex&f=false|Appetite (Noël Riley Fitch. Doubleday, 1997, p. 308) <br class="br">Attributed
“… nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.”
Source: My Life in France
“Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again”
Source: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking
“The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.”
Source: Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times
“She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.”
Source: My Life in France
“A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe.”
Quoted in New York Times obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/dining/13CND-CHILD.html
Letter to Avis DeVoto, January 30, 1953, collected in As Always Julia ed. Joan Reardon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
Foreword to Mastering the Art of French Cooking, July 1961
My Life In France: Le Cordon Bleu, p. 71
