Famous Quotes

"When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power."

Julia Child on Food

More quotes about Food

• "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Food

• "You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

  Yogi Berra on Food

• "Beware the hobby that eats."

  Benjamin Franklin on Food

More quotes by Julia Child

• "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."

• "Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe."

• "In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

• "In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking."

• "I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything."