To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

When I wasn’t at school, I was experimenting at home, and became a bit of a Mad Scientist. I did hours of research on mayonnaise, for instance, and though no one else seemed to care about it, I thought it was utterly fascinating….By the end of my research, I believe, I had written more on the subject of mayonnaise than anyone in history.

I could at times be overly emotional, but was lucky to have the kind of orderly mind that is good at categorizing things.

julia child