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" I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way. "
Julia Child
Keep
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Tried
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" 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. "
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Wine
White
" Life itself is the proper binge. "
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Life
" The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. "
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" Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. "
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Cooking
Better
" 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. "
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Home
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" 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. "
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" The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years. "
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" 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. "
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Love
You
Think
" 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. "
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Why
You
Turn
" I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. "
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Yourself
Excuses
Believe
" You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it. "
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Food
Know
Learn
" When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time. "
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Cake
Find
You
" 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. "
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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. "
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Wine
Time
Small
" What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables. "
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Soup
Thanksgiving
Vegetables
" Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. "
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Own
Again
Look
" 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. "
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You
Today
Think
" In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. "
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Underwear
Men
Just
" 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. "
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Done
Life
Want
" 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. "
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Remember
Always
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" 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. "
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Old
People
Rules
" The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure. "
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Looking
Time
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" 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. "
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Child
Great
Me
" It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. "
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Been
Someone
Over
" Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it! "
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Like
Someone
Fish
" I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well. "
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Keep
Around
Feed
" I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. "
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Food
Just
Cooking
" 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. "
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Media
People
Worry
" 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. "
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