Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto. The film is written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia.
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Powell became an Internet celebrity with her 2004 blog chronicling her yearlong odyssey of cooking every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. A frustrated secretary in New York City, Powell embarked on "the Julie/Julia project" to find a sense of direction, and both the cooking and the writing quickly became all-consuming. Some passages in the book are taken verbatim from the blog, but Powell expands on her experience and gives generous background about her personal life: her doting husband, wacky friends, evil co-workers. She also includes some comments from her "bleaders" (blog readers), who formed an enthusiastic support base. Powell never met Julia Child (who died last year), but the venerable chef's spirit is present throughout, and Powell imaginatively reconstructs episodes from Child's life in the 1940s. Her writing is feisty and unrestrained, especially as she details killing lobsters, tackling marrowbones and cooking late into the night. Occasionally the diarist instinct overwhelms the generally tight structure and Powell goes on unrelated tangents, but her voice is endearing enough that readers will quickly forgive such lapses. Both home cooks and devotees of Bridget Jones–style dishing will be caught up in Powell's funny, sharp-tongued but generous writing.
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In her adolescence, Powell came across Joy of Sex and Mastering the Art of French Cooking and forever linked the two in her mind, finding something absolutely sensual about cooking. Years later, living in New York with her husband and coming to the awful realization that her temp job as a secretary was about to turn full-time, she devises the ambitious assignment of cooking 524 recipes in one year and chronicling the experience on a blog. As she moves from simple potato soup to more complicated crepes, Powell engages the help of her husband, brother, and friend, as well as the hundreds of fans she attracts to her blog. A recipe calling for bone marrow prompts a long and hilarious search for a local butcher, and a meal that "tasted like really good sex." The tougher the shopping and cooking assignment, the more sensual the experience, as Powell discovers incredible determination and hidden talents in cooking, writing, and living. This is a joyful, humorous account of one woman's efforts to find meaning in her life. Vanessa Bush
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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"Julie and Julia" by Julie Powell is the story of Julie Powell writing blogs about her journey through Julia Child's famous book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Julie decides to cook her way through every recipe in the book within a year and write about her experiences in a blog.
I was expecting a great book about food and about the history of Julia Child and about the experiences of a novice cook, cooking her way through Julia's cookbook. What I got was a story about drinking, swearing, sex and friends with a bit of the stuff I was looking for.
I did not become attached to Julie Powell and could not relate to her problems and how she handled her life. Do people really drink that much? Being a self proclaimed foodie I wanted so much more about the cooking experience itself instead of all the personal trauma and whining that Julie writes about...it was an agitating read.
I was expecting a great book about food and about the history of Julia Child and about the experiences of a novice cook, cooking her way through Julia's cookbook. What I got was a story about drinking, swearing, sex and friends with a bit of the stuff I was looking for.
I did not become attached to Julie Powell and could not relate to her problems and how she handled her life. Do people really drink that much? Being a self proclaimed foodie I wanted so much more about the cooking experience itself instead of all the personal trauma and whining that Julie writes about...it was an agitating read.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Lisa Douglas
Format:Mass Market Paperback
For those of you that read Julie Powell's blog, you'll find this a more polished and cohesive telling of her experience cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, warts, obscenities, and all. It fills in some of the details of her personal life, what happened once the project was finished, and recounts the hiccups and breakdowns she experienced honestly, without trying to make herself look better or be more likeable.
Those that saw the movie should note that the movie was based on TWO books, Julie & Julia (by Julie Powell) and Child's autobiography, My Life in France (written with her husband's grandnephew Alex Prud'homme). If you're looking for more information about Julia Child's life beyond some witty qutoes and basic background you should pick up the autobiography, as Julie & Julia is firmly about Julie Powell and the Julie/Julia project.
Those that saw the movie should note that the movie was based on TWO books, Julie & Julia (by Julie Powell) and Child's autobiography, My Life in France (written with her husband's grandnephew Alex Prud'homme). If you're looking for more information about Julia Child's life beyond some witty qutoes and basic background you should pick up the autobiography, as Julie & Julia is firmly about Julie Powell and the Julie/Julia project.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By YM
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book was brutal! If I could give zero stars I would. It was my travel book and being somewhat of a foodie totally looked fwd to this book. But it was utterly self absorbed and boring. I totally understand why Julia Child turned her nose up at this woman's blog. This definitely was not an ode to Julia Child or her recipes, this was making a quick buck and 15 mins of fame from Julia Child's name.
I got through a 1/3 of the book and finally admitted defeat.
"My Life in France" is so much better.
I got through a 1/3 of the book and finally admitted defeat.
"My Life in France" is so much better.
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I found myself putting this book down half way through, sadly. After seeing Julie & Julia, I thought this book would be a nice complement, filling in gaps that may have been... Read more
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I really didn't like this book. It seemed very off-topic, self-involved, and incredibly boring.
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Published on Oct 6 2009 by A. Nunn
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I too bought this because I loved the movie preview. I really liked the parts where she talked about Julia Child's life or quoted her, and her cooking descriptions. Read more
Published on Aug 27 2009 by Travelling mom
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It was okay
I bought this book because the movie looked so appealing. I was expecting half the book to be about Julie (writing the blog) and half about the iconic Julia Child. Read more
Published on Aug 22 2009 by Shell1
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Cooking gone astray
I was looking for a light read and thought that "Julie and Julia: My year of cooking dangerously"would fill the bill. What a disappointment! Full of swearing. Read more
Published on Aug 8 2009 by Kate Rendham
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Enjoyable "Foodie" read...
I bought this book to take on vacation with me, when normally I'll read 3 or 4 books in a week quite easily. This book took me a while... Read more
Published on Aug 4 2009 by Calgary Book Worm
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