335 Quotes by Julia Child

Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.