Julia Child Quotations | Page 3

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

With enough butter, anything is good

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

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

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.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.