Julia Child Quotes

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.

And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.

My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.

I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.

Red wine vinegar has some personality as well acidity.

Nobody doesn't like meat.

People under-salt their food, and they think it's bland, but salt brings out flavor.

Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.

There are certain foods that are somewhat sacred or you're not supposed to mess with. When you do mess with them, it touches a nerve where you have to compare it to the original, and then that thing you're creating has a loosing change right out of the gate.

Salt's relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until I came to the Western world.

No Persian meal is complete without an abundance of herbs.

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.

The Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter without making it really sweet or really even that Asian flavored.

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.