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Learn 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?

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Julia Child

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Learn 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?

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I Always Try To Buy Just What I Need. You Get Ideas As To What's In Season And What's Best. I Think If You Have A Preconceived Idea Before Shopping, That Makes It Difficult. You Have To Have An Open Mind.

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The Sweetness And Generosity And Politeness And Gentleness And Humanity Of The French Had Shown Me How Lovely Life Can Be If One Takes Time To Be Friendly.

One Of The Secrets, And Pleasures, Of Cooking Is To Learn To Correct Something If It Goes Awry; And One Of The Lessons Is To Grin And Bear It If It Cannot Be Fixed.

In The 1960s, You Could Eat Anything You Wanted, And Of Course, People Were Smoking Cigarettes And All Kinds Of Things, And There Was No Talk About Fat And Anything Like That, And Butter And Cream Were Rife. Those Were Lovely Days For Gastronomy, I Must Say.

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The Secret Of A Happy Marriage Is Finding The Right Person. You Know They're Right If You Love To Be With Them All The Time.

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Fat Gives Things Flavor.

You Are The Butter To My Bread,and The Breath To My Life

Fake 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.

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I Was Thirty-seven Years Old And Still Discovering Who I Was.

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Pro-choice Is The Only Way To Be-- Because Women Are Human Beings, After All, And Should Be Treated As Such.

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Just Speak Very Loudly And Quickly, And State Your Position With Utter Conviction, As The French Do, And You'll Have A Marvelous Time!

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I Would Happily Die With A Bottle Of White Burgundy In My Mouth.

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Romance Is The Icing But Love Is The Cake.

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I Was Never A Spy. I Was With The Oss Organization. We Had A Number Of Women, But We Were All Office Help.

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We Ought To Enjoy Our Food, We Ought To Take Time And Care And Prepare It Correctly, And We Ought To Have Fun Doing It And Make It A Communal Event.

A Party Without Cake Is Really Just A Meeting.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Grilled Vegetables.

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If You're Not Ready To Fail, You're Not Going To Learn How To Cook.

I Was Kind Of An Innocent Hayseed From A Middle-class, Utterly Nonintellectual Background.

I’m Awfully Sorry For People Who Are Taken In By All Of Today’s Dietary Mumbo Jumbo. They Are Not Getting Any Enjoyment Out Of Their Food.

Freshness Is Essential. That Makes All The Difference.

The More You Know, The More You Can Create. There's No End To Imagination In The Kitchen.

...operational Proof...it's All Theory Until You See For Yourself Whether Or Not Something Works.

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.

We Hit It Off Immediately, Especially Helene, Who Was A 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' Kind Of Person.

Food, Like The People Who Eat It, Can Be Stimulated By Wine Or Spirits. And, As With People, It Can Also Be Spoiled.

The Tomato Hides Its Griefs. Internal Damage Is Hard To Spot.

Always Start Out With A Larger Pot Than What You Think You Need.

Because Of Media Hype And Woefully Inadequate Information, Too Many People Nowadays Are Deathly Afraid Of Their Food, And What Does Fear Of Food Do To The Digestive System? ... I, For One, Would Much Rather Swoon Over A Few Thin Slices Of Prime Beefsteak, Or One Small Serving Of Chocolate Mousse, Or A Sliver Of Foie Gras Than Indulge To The Full On Such Nonentities As Fat-free Gelatin Puddings.

Sooner Or Later The Public Will Forget You; The Memory Of You Will Fade. What's Important Are The Individuals You've Influenced Along The Way.

Cooking Hasn't Yet Been Accepted As The Art Form It Is. It Should Be On The Level With Any Of The Other Art Forms.

Dining With One's Friends And Beloved Family Is Certainly One Of Life's Primal And Most Innocent Delights, One That Is Both Soul-satisfying And Eternal.

How Can A Nation Be Called Great If Its Bread Tastes Like Kleenex?

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I Love Good, Fresh Food Cooked By Someone Who Knows What He's Doing.

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I Love To Teach - That's My Role.

We Had A Happy Marriage Because We Were Together All The Time. We Were Friends As Well As Husband And Wife. We Just Had A Good Time.

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