Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

Julia Child

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

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Julia Child

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Julia Child

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

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.

Julia Child

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

Julia Child

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

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

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Julia Child

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

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