Julia Child Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.”

“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”