Julia Child Quotes

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

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.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

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.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.

I really like getting the person who is terrified of cooking into the kitchen and showing them that cooking can be both indulgent and fun.

I am actually a very good cook (if I may say so myself). I just don't know that many recipes.

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

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.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

I'm a terrible cook.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

I'm actually a good cook.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.