Julia Child Quotes

Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.

If you're cooking for someone important - whether it's your boss or a date - never try a new recipe and a new ingredient at the same time.

I'm from where...Rich and A hit the kitchen they were pitchin up

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.

The best advice for building up confidence in the kitchen - start small. Don't go after the super intense Julia Child coq au vin recipe. Pick something simple and tackle it.

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food. They have to cook. At the restaurants, we chop cilantro, onions, and limes two or three times a day. We make guacamole from fresh avocados.

I've always said I'm pretty good at making mashed potato. I'm a good masher.

My family is usually the first guinea pigs to try out my new recipes.

Lame blades can dull relatively quickly, so after slashing several loaves the blade won't slice through the dough with tremendous ease. (When this happens, don't throw it away - it's still sharp enough to score duck or pork skin, or shave paper-thin slices of garlic and chives, like a hot knife through butter).

Even when I make pizza, I make it from the scratch and prepare the dough.

Both of us are lucky because we married women who are amazing cooks.

Because I am a chef, I have to try new things all the time, so it's been really good to have my family to be able to be there and test everything out.

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!

That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a challenge. We're going to go to hell and back, and we're going to have some bumps.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

I'd love to cook. It's something I've got into since I've grown older. I'm mates with Jamie Oliver and he's been a real inspiration. I've cooked for Jamie a few times - most people are too frightened to cook for him. Chefs are really easy to cook for. They're just pleased not to be the one who's cooking.