(1912–2004)
U.S. chef, author, and television personality
Julia Child
After a day of giving up cigarettes I have decided what the hell, and am back on the old routine. I found that my smokeless yesterday didn’t bother me at all. It just seemed, merely, silly to deny myself that pleasure. I think it is really the adult substitute for thumbsucking.
July 1954 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 183.
Bosom not as copious as she would wish, but has noticed that Botticelli bosoms are not big either. Legs OK, according to husband. Freckles.
Describing herself in a February 23, 1953 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 78.
“Before marriage I was wildly interested in sex, but since joining up with my old goat, it has taken its proper position in my life.”
October 28, 1953 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 142.
The thing about food is you’re a much happier person if you eat well and treasure your meals.
“Food: Everyone’s in the Kitchen,” Time, November 25, 1966.
Every woman should kiss her butcher.
“Food: Everyone’s in the Kitchen,” Time, November 25, 1966.
The idea was to take French cooking out of cuckoo land and bring it down to where everybody is. You can’t turn a sow’s ear into veal Orloff, but you can do something very good with a sow’s ear.
“Food: Everyone’s in the Kitchen,” Time, November 25, 1966.