335 Quotes by Julia Child

Cooking hasn’t yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I’m really against these people who try to show that they’re great patriots, because they’re not thinking, they’re just being hysterical.

If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.

I’m a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it – and, more important, I like to give it.

It’s hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

If you don’t pick your audience, you’re lost because you’re not really talking to anybody.