Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
by Julie Powell
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Author: Julie PowellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-07
ISBN: 0316013269
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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- ISBN13: 9780316013260
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Book Reviews of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Book Review: Grew on me when Julia was the subject
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband (who brought the 2-volume slipcase edition of MTAOFC & another Julia Child classic into our marriage), college age son-prizewinning-cook, and I are counting the hours until the movie opens, but I'm the only one of the 3 of us who has read Julie & Julia. Face it, J&J is chick lit (and not Christian chick lit).
I had purchased J&J when it was first released and put it aside because the language turned me off like an overly f'ed Eddie Murphy movie. When Julie stopped being a potty mouthed, raving 21st century under-employed wife and actually wrote about Julia Child and hands-on cooking, J&J was a funny story.
As for pungent culinary humor, I'll take Ruth Reichl over Julie any day (yeah, Ruth is Jewish chick "lit", uh, memoir). I have hundreds of cookbooks and foodie books like MFK Fisher's The Art of Eating, Nigel Slater's Toast, chickens - Pam Percy's The Complete Chicken, Counting My Chickens by the Duchess of Devonshire, & Still Life with Chickens a memoir by Catherine Goldhammer amongst my faves. Yes, memoir is my ultimate fave genre. Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the WayTender at the Bone: Growing Up at the TableGarlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in DisguiseCounting My Chickens: And Other Home ThoughtsStill Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the SeaThe Art of EatingThe Complete Chicken: An Entertaining History of Chickens (Country Life)Toast
Summary of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Now in paperback-the format in which it's destined to become a reading group favorite-the most heralded and hilarious memoir of recent years:Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It's a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey - life rediscovered through aspics, calves' brains and crème brûlée.
The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) is now a major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia, the film Julie & Julia will be released by Sony Pictures on August 7, 2009.
Julie & Julia 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 Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, in a period of 365 days. The result is a masterful medley of Bridget Jones' Diary meets Like Water for Chocolate, mixed with a healthy dose of original wit, warmth, and inspiration that sets this memoir apart from most tales of personal redemption.
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.
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...."
Inspired and encouraging, Julie and Julia is a unique opportunity to join one woman's attempt to change her life, and have a laugh, or ten, along the way. --Gisele Toueg
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