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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780316109697 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those more inclined to order take-out, will enjoy Powell's down-and-dirty journey into French cuisine, but her depiction of America is the secret ingredient that holds the whole recipe together. A nourishing read if you love to cook or would rather stay out of the kitchen altogether.
Recommended by Emily, Powells.com
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Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year.
At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia's stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver.
And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.
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constantreader, July 16, 2008 (view all comments by constantreader)
Julie,
As my moniker attests to, I am a "Constant Reader." I have never commented on any book before, but I cannot let a chance go by to say to everyone who needs a good read, a good laugh (out loud no less) or a good cry, to buy this book! Thank you for generously sharing yourself, your friends and family - it was delicious.
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peecee27, May 9, 2008 (view all comments by peecee27)
Julia has always been one of my heroines. I remember watching her was when she was young and I was VERY young. (mid to late sixties!)
I love this book. Anyone that has ever obligated themselves to cook something fabulous, locked in a hot kitchen, stuggling through long lists of ingredients and instructions will understand exactly what Julie put herself through.
Julie,
You've earned a fan. I can not believe that this is and was a real blog. YOU HAVE ANOTHER BLEADER......
PeeCee27
P.S. Refrain from obsenities? haha
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virtualvirgo13, January 12, 2008 (view all comments by virtualvirgo13)
Thoughts on Julie & Julia
So, maybe it's because I'm 29, childless, and not EVEN living in a loft in NYC that I'm feeling such dinstinct pangs from reading Julie Powell's Julie & Julia. I've just finished this book in quite the same manner in which I began; in tears. I identify with Julie on so many levels, it's scary. Mabye it's a modern girl's syndrome, maybe it's just a cook's eternal hunger.... Let's step back a moment. The saga that is the tale of Julie & Julia begins with a dinsgruntled, child-free, 29-year-old, temp secretary named Julie making the rash and visionary decision to cook her way through the ENTIRE tome that is Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year's time. That's over 500 technically severe and palate-challenging dishes, folks. Let's be realistic. How many of us would eat brains, kidneys, and failed aspic just because we said we would? When it comes to following through on a threat, very few of the tough guys in our society have the balls behind their tongues that they do behind their fists. I commend Julie on her accomplishment. I applaud her sticking through it. I thank her husband, Eric, for standing by her side as she cried in her gelatin. In the end, though, what I really feel toward Julie is envy. She was brazen. She was defiant. She was out on a limb. All of it for what? She questioned herself a million times. Ultimately, though, she was triumphant and satisfied. She accomplished something. Something unique, totally her own, and something exceedingly interesting to a multitude of people out there. I'm so incredibly jealous and so ridiculously famished for that "thing" of my own. Thank you for the hope, Julia!
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780316109697
- Subtitle:
- 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master t
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Little Brown and Company
- Subject:
- Cookery, french
- Subject:
- Essays
- Subject:
- Cooking
- Subject:
- Women cooks
- Copyright:
- 2005
- Publication Date:
- September 28, 2005
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 309
- Dimensions:
- 9.56x6.30x1.20 in. 1.17 lbs.
