The Wisdom of Julia Child
“If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?”
“People who love to eat are always the best people.”
“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”
“I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.”
“Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake.”
“Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed—eh bien, tant pis!”
“A party without cake is just a meeting.”
“Friendship is the most important thing—not career or housework, or one’s fatigue—and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”
“I believe in red meat. I’ve often said: red meat and gin.”
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
“Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should. Good results require that one take time and care.”
“Nothing you ever learn is really wasted and will sometime be used.”
“Illegitemus non carborundum est”
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”
“Careful cooking is love.”
“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”