335 Quotes by Julia Child

Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

With enough butter, anything is good

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.