Julia Child Quotes

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.

I love to cook. And I love food. I'd probably work with animals. Interior design, I'm very into that.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

I like the joy when you feed people and they're happy and full and enjoying themselves.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

I learned to have a respect for animals and for the people who deal with them - vets and farmers.

I enjoy learning how to cook because I like to eat. Eating is good. Eating is fun.

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here [living] for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

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