Julia Child Quotes

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

I prefer eating to cooking.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.

Getting kids into the kitchen preparing the food they and their families will eat results in them viewing food in an entirely new way. If given the right ingredients, that act alone can raise the standards of the quality of the food both they and their family eat.

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

I'm the only one of all my friends that doesn't cook. But I don't cook, and I don't care.

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

I grew up cooking. I was always in my grandma's cooking, and I never thought of it as a career.

I like to make everything and I can really cook.

I don't really cook much to be honest.

I don't cook as often as I would like.

I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.

You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.

It's tough to eat well if you don't know how to cook.

I would like to help people cook more.