false<![CDATA[Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously]]>1374726<i>Julie & Julia</i> is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalize her marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child's <i>Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I</i>, in a period of 365 days. The result is a masterful medley of <i>Bridget Jones' Diary</i> meets <i>Like Water for Chocolate</i>, mixed with a healthy dose of original wit, warmth, and inspiration that sets this memoir apart from most tales of personal redemption. <br><br> When we first meet Julie, she's a frustrated temp-to-perm secretary who slaves away at a thankless job, only to return to an equally demoralizing apartment in the outer boroughs of Manhattan each evening. At the urging of Eric, her devoted and slightly geeky husband, she decides to start a blog that will chronicle what she dubs the "Julie/Julia Project." What follows is a year of butter-drenched meals that will both necessitate the wearing of an unbearably uncomfortable girdle on the hottest night of the year, as well as the realization that life is what you make of it and joy is not as impossible a quest as it may seem, even when it's -10 degrees out and your pipes are frozen. <br><br> Powell is a natural when it comes to connecting with her readers, which is probably why her blog generated so much buzz, both from readers and media alike. And while her self-deprecating sense of humor can sometimes dissolve into whininess, she never really loses her edge, or her sense of purpose. Even on day 365, she's working her way through Mayonnaise Collee and ending the evening "back exactly where we started--just Eric and me, three cats and Buffy...sitting on a couch in the outer boroughs, eating, with Julia chortling alongside us...." <br><br> Inspired and encouraging, <i>Julie and Julia</i> is a unique opportunity to join one woman's attempt to change her life, and have a laugh, or ten, along the way. <i>--Gisele Toueg</i>3338312book2892005Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchentotal:11284|5:1349|4:3878|3:3858|2:1631|1:568|1128437661175583278260falsefalseThu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007Thu Jun 21 14:05:27 -0700 2007Thu Jun 21 14:06:45 -0700 2007 a woman who dedicated her year to learning how to cook.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking one recipe at a time, skipping nothing. At its root it's a true life adventure- something I can experience vicariously.
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114falsefalseMon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006Fri Feb 08 18:52:22 -0800 2008Sat Feb 09 08:42:46 -0800 2008 I was so in love with the idea that Julie came up with: to recreate each of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I never had read her blog before, and my expectations for the book were high.
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32falsefalseMon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sun Jun 07 11:36:02 -0700 2009Wed Jun 10 07:47:22 -0700 2009 What skeeved me out is the author's repeated mentions about how dirty her apartment was including cat hair & maggots in the kitchen. Her friends are braver than I am, but I wouldn't eat anything she ...more...]]>
22falsefalseMon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon Jul 13 08:33:40 -0700 2009Fri Jul 24 09:20:25 -0700 2009 Julie Powell is obviously a literate person with, at times, wide perspectives a...more...]]>
23falsefalseSun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Mar 08 19:34:20 -0700 2009Fri Mar 20 19:16:04 -0700 2009 But I just didn't get it.
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In light of my new mindset on cooking and blogging I decided that the time had finally come to read Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell (the subtitle of which, given the upcoming movie release, has been unnecessarily changed to My Year of Cooking Dangerou...more...]]>
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23falsefalseWed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009Thu Jul 23 09:32:39 -0700 2009Thu Aug 27 07:22:00 -0700 2009 I grew up watching Julia Child on weekends, until my Dad showed me that one SNL clip of her and I thought it was real. I didn't want to risk anymore accidental bloodbaths by watching her show.
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