Well, all I know is this-nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.
Quotes from Julia Child
It’s easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don’t bring you oysters. (Paul Child)
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
When I wasn’t at school, I was experimenting at home, and became a bit of a Mad Scientist. I did hours of research on mayonnaise, for instance, and though no one else seemed to care about it, I thought it was utterly fascinating….By the end of my research, I believe, I had written more on the subject of mayonnaise than anyone in history.
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.
Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. 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, and learn from her mistakes.
It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.
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