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" Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it! "
Julia Child
Like
Someone
Fish
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" 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. "
Julia Child
Done
Cook
Learn
" I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. "
Julia Child
Yourself
Excuses
Believe
" 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. "
Julia Child
War
Woman
Think
" 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. "
Julia Child
You
World
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. "
Julia Child
Looking
Time
War
" Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. "
Julia Child
Thinks
Cooking
Better
" 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. "
Julia Child
Sitting
Perfect
Reason
" 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. "
Julia Child
Remember
Always
Business
" 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. "
Julia Child
Media
People
Worry
" The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. "
Julia Child
New
Matter
Always
" 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. "
Julia Child
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. "
Julia Child
God
Think
Religion
" 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. "
Julia Child
People
Talk
You
" 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. "
Julia Child
Why
You
Turn
" 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. "
Julia Child
You
Today
Think
" 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. "
Julia Child
Old
People
Rules
" 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. "
Julia Child
Women
Nice
Mother
" 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. "
Julia Child
Soup
Thanksgiving
Vegetables
" 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. "
Julia Child
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. "
Julia Child
Always
Healthy
See
" 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
Way
Tried
" I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. "
Julia Child
Office
Help
Women
" 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. "
Julia Child
Love
You
Think
" I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. "
Julia Child
Food
Just
Cooking
" In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. "
Julia Child
Underwear
Men
Just
" To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly to the young, who should take to it as soon as they can handle knife and fork; this is a fine way for them to begin taking pride in themselves and their abilities. "
Julia Child
Young
Eat
Fish
" 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. "
Julia Child
Wine
Time
Small
" 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. "
Julia Child
Food
Know
Learn
" It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. "
Julia Child
Been
Someone
Over
" I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well. "
Julia Child
Keep
Around
Feed