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" Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. "
Serious
Think
Way
" As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I've always had a healthy appetite, especially for the wonderful meat and the fresh produce of California, but I was never encouraged to cook and just didn't see the point in it. "
Always
Healthy
See
" As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time. "
Wine
Time
Small
" Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. "
Done
Cook
Learn
" Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. "
Media
People
Worry
" Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe. "
Remember
Always
Business
" Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake. "
Done
Life
Want
" Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. "
Find
Success
You
" I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. "
Yourself
Excuses
Believe
" I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way. "
Keep
Way
Tried
" 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. "
Why
You
Turn
" I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. "
Duck
Wine
White
" I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. "
God
Think
Religion
" In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. "
Underwear
Men
Just
" In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. "
Serious
Art
Food
" 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. "
Women
Nice
Mother
" In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking. "
World
Home
Cooking
" In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say. "
People
Talk
You
" In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking. "
Old
People
Rules
" I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well. "
You
World
Rules
" I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give. "
Love
You
Think
" I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything. "
You
Today
Think
" It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. "
Been
Someone
Over
" I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. "
Food
Just
Cooking
" I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. "
War
Woman
Think
" I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child. "
Child
Great
Me
" I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. "
Office
Help
Women
" I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well. "
Keep
Around
Feed
" Life itself is the proper binge. "
Itself
Binge
Life
" Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. "
Own
Again
Look
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