Julia Child
Julia Child
Julia Carolyn Childwas an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth15 August 1912
CityPasadena, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.
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.
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
With enough butter, anything is good
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.
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.
A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.
But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.