Julia Child: ‘Never apologize’

Julia Child in her kitchen in Cambridge in 1978, in a publicity shot.

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.’’

“No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.”

“People who love to eat are always the best people”

“Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?”

“You learn to cook so you don’t have to be a slave to recipes.”

— Famous lines by Julia Child (1912-2004), TV food-show star (via WGBH, in Boston, where she was the star of The French Chef), author, teacher, semi-comedian and in World War II a quasi-spy with the OSS. She lived in Cambridge, Mass., for 40 years and was a big character in many ways.