110+ Julia Child Quotes On Cooking, Marriage And Butter

Julia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing 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. She is remembered for her catchphrase "Bon appétit!" Following is our collection on famous quotes by Julia Child on love, cooking, marriage.

Top 10 Julia Child Quotes

1. Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
2. The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
3. You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
4. A party without cake is really just a meeting.
5. People who love to eat are always the best people.
6. I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
7. The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
8. In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
9. Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
10. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Julia Child Image Quotes

People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. — Julia Child

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. — Julia Child

Julia Child Short Quotes

• It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.
• Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!
• It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
• Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.
• I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth.
• In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
• Eating is the secret to good cooking.
• The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
• A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.
• Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Julia Child Quotes About Love

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly. — Julia Child

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. — Julia Child

Romance is the icing but love is the cake. — Julia Child

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. — Julia Child

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? — Julia Child

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly. — Julia Child

I love to teach - that's my role. — Julia Child

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips. — Julia Child

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. — Julia Child

I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing. — Julia Child

Julia Child Quotes About Cooking

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. — Julia Child

I think every woman should have a blowtorch. — Julia Child

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. — Julia Child

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! — Julia Child

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. — Julia Child

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know? — Julia Child

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking. — Julia Child

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. — Julia Child

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole. — Julia Child

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. — Julia Child

Julia Child Quotes About Butter

With enough butter, anything is good — Julia Child

If you're afraid of butter, use cream. — Julia Child

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff. — Julia Child

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it. — Julia Child

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life — Julia Child

Julia Child Quotes About Food

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. — 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. — Julia Child

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal. — Julia Child

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. — Julia Child

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe. — Julia Child

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? — Julia Child

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy. — Julia Child

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile. — Julia Child

Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences. — Julia Child

Julia Child Quotes About Life

Life itself is the proper binge. — Julia Child

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. — Julia Child

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die. — Julia Child

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life. — Julia Child

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off. — Julia Child

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person. — Julia Child

...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended. — Julia Child

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. — Julia Child

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life — Julia Child

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life. — Julia Child

Julia Child Famous Quotes And Sayings

People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. — Julia Child

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. — Julia Child

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical. — Julia Child

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. — Julia Child

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. — Julia Child

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker. — Julia Child

Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added. — Julia Child

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed. — Julia Child

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford. — Julia Child

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create. — Julia Child

You must have discipline to have fun. — Julia Child

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly. — Julia Child

The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break — Julia Child

The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear. — Julia Child

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish. — Julia Child

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries. — Julia Child

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall. — Julia Child

Fat gives things flavor. — Julia Child

It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place? — Julia Child

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking. — Julia Child

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was. — Julia Child

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well. — Julia Child

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook. — Julia Child

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking. — Julia Child

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot. — Julia Child

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin. — Julia Child

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you. — Julia Child

Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself? — Julia Child

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby. — Julia Child

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always. — Julia Child

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot. — Julia Child

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. — Julia Child

If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook. — Julia Child

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up. — Julia Child

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades — Julia Child

the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create. — Julia Child

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important. — Julia Child

It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy. — Julia Child

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat. — Julia Child

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works. — Julia Child

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. — Julia Child

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert. — Julia Child

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms. — Julia Child

No one's more important than people. — Julia Child

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn. — Julia Child

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done. — Julia Child

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize. — Julia Child

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them. — Julia Child

I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind. — Julia Child

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food. — Julia Child

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes. — Julia Child

Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever? — Julia Child

There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables. — Julia Child

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head. — Julia Child

Life Lessons by Julia Child

1. Julia Child taught us to never give up on our dreams and to always be passionate and enthusiastic about what we do. She worked hard to become a successful chef and to share her knowledge of French cuisine with the world.
2. She also showed us the importance of patience and practice. She believed that with enough practice and dedication, anyone can learn to cook and she was willing to take the time to teach others.
3. Lastly, Julia Child demonstrated the power of collaboration and teamwork. She worked with her husband, Paul, to create the iconic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and to bring French cuisine to the United States.