Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
Julia ChildCassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.
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 Childthe more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create.
Julia Child