It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
Julia ChildThe problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.
Julia ChildI admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you โsirโ and โmadam,โ and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of โwhat is doneโ and โwhat is not done,โ and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena
Julia ChildFake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
Julia ChildLearn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?
Julia Child