Julia Child Quotes

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook for my old Zen master for many years. So there were two or three dishes that he liked, you know. Teriyaki salmon, a few things.

I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.

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

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

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.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives.

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

I love cooking and spending time in mine.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.