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Your Quotes for 15 August 2005 - Julia Child

Julia McWilliams was born at Pasadena, California on this day in 1912. After graduating from Smith College in 1934, she worked in advertising in New York City. When war broke out, the six-foot-tall Julia joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the precursor to the CIA) because she was too tall for the WACs or WAVEs. She served at Washington City, Ceylon, and China during the war, married a coworker and moved with him to Paris. Now Julia Child, she attended Le Cordon Bleu, then taught French cooking to visiting Americans. Back in the states, Julia invented the television cooking show, and was a fixture on public television for ages. I don't cook with her skill, but my girth testifies to how well I follow the rest of her example.

If it's beautifully arranged on the plate, you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Cassoulet, 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.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
     - All from Julia Child, 1912 - 2004

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