Carrie-Anne's review
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell
Don't give up on the idea of cooking your way through a cookbook. A friend and I did it years ago (well ... most of the way) and it was really interesting!
Carrie-Anne's review
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
Carrie-Anne's review
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Highly dissapointed in this book. The only reason I gave it two verses one star was that it gave me an idea for my own cooking project. I plan to cook my way through one of my cookbooks once I get my place. Otherwise I think that this book lacked focus in that she jumps all over the place... from describing her boring job (and I mean that it bored me) to the project to excerpts from Julia's letters to her social life. The reason I bought this book was to read about her experiences about cooking Julia's receipes not about her boss or friend that dates boys named David. I wanted to know what it was like working with weird animal parts and creating twenty-step sauces. She does go into detail here and there, but I wanted more more more. Julie also mentions the french title of what she is cooking but because 1. I don't know French and 2. I don't have a copy of the cook book - sometimes I had no idea what dish she was making. it would have been great if she noted the English transl...more
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Don't give up on the idea of cooking your way through a cookbook. A friend and I did it years ago (well ... most of the way) and it was really interesting!