“I love cooking with wine—sometimes I even put it in the food”

“I love cooking with wine—sometimes I even put it in the food.” This popular quote has been attributed to French chef Julia Child (1912-2004) and to the film comedian (and lover of the bottle) W. C. Fields (1880-1946). There is no evidence whatsoever that either Child or Fields ever used the quotation.
 
The quotation is cited in print by at least 1996. In 1999, someone wrote that the saying was on a refrigerator magnet.
 
Other sayings about cooking with wine are “I tried cooking with wine. After 5 glasses, I forgot why I was in the kitchen” and “Never cook with wine you wouldn’t drink.”
   
 
AllPosters.com
I love cooking with wine…
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Type: Wood Sign
Size: 24 x 5 in
   
Wikiquote
Julia Child (1912-2004), television chef.
Unsourced
. I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I’m cooking.
   
Google Groups: rec.food.cooking
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Sue Hutt)
Date: 1996/08/03
Subject: Re: Ants in the Kitchen…
 
I cook with wine.  Sometimes I even put it in the food!
   
Google Groups: uk.singles
Newsgroups: uk.singles
From: Gillian Matthews

Date: 1999/01/18
Subject: Re: Thanks, but no thanks
 
My fridge magnet says “I like cooking with wine sometimes I even put it in the food”
   
Google Books
My Little Bit of Nonsense
By Charlie Walker
Published by Charles Walker
2000
Pg. 122:
I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
3 February 2001, Ironwood (MI) Daily Globe, “Reader comments on past columns good for laugh” by Jan Tucker, pg. 1, col. 5:
Of my recipes at the end of the columns, there was this comment: “I love cooking with wine—Sometimes I even put it in the food.”
     
Unsolved Mysteries
Thankfullness!
ategory:(Humor) Created:(2/13/2002 10:52:00 AM)
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22. I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
   
FoodReference.com
FOOD FOR THOUGHT - March 8, 2006
Mark R. Vogel
Cooking with Wine I
There’s a plaque in my kitchen that reads:  “I love to cook with wine.  Sometimes I even put it in the food.”
 
Google Books
Cuisines: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Compiled by Icon Group International, Inc.
Published by ICON Group International, Inc.
2008
Pg. 1:
I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
—Anonymous
   
Westword (Denver, CO)
Little Raven awards you for cooking with wine
By Tyler Nemkov in Food for Thought
Thursday, Mar. 12 2009 @ 3:13PM
Little Raven Vineyards, the distinctive wine shop at 1590 Little Raven Street, wants to reward you for coming up with culinary creations.
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I stared blankly at the site for about fifteen minutes, at which point I finally spotted a quote by W. C. Fields:
 
“I cook with wine; sometimes I even put it in the food.”