A Julie And Julia Book Review

"Government drone by day, renegade foodie by night. Too old for theatre, too young for children, and too bitter for anything else, Julie Powell was looking for a challenge. And in the Julie/Julia project she found it. Risking her marriage, her job, and her cats' well-being, she has signed on for a deranged assignment.

365 days. 536 recipes. One girl and a crappy outer borough kitchen.
How far will it go? We can only wait. And wait. And wait...
The Julie/Julia Project. Coming soon to a computer terminal near you."

~~ Julia Powell

Sunday, August 25, 2002

Click here to learn more about or to order
Julie and Julia:
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
1st Edition book from Amazon.

The original title of this book was
Julie and Julia: 365 Days,
524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
and it was published by Little, Brown in 2005.

The paperback version of the book was called
Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
and was published by Back Bay Books in 2006.

Why in the world did they change the name
of the original book? I have no idea, do you?

Click here to order your copy of
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
from Amazon. (Or just to read more about it.)

"Both home cooks and devotees of Bridget Jones-style dishing will be caught up in Powell's funny, sharp-tongued but generous writing."
~~ Sarah Chalfant, Publishers Weekly

"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." ~~ Booklist

Click here to order
Mashy, the egg masher,
from Amazon.

"Powell is a talented, funny writer...
Julie & Julia [is] a touching, sometimes
stomach-turning and overall delicious read."

~~ Johanna Bates, BUST

"This is an engaging, intelligent, and funny story of a young woman who takes on a self-imposed challenge of cooking her way through Julia Child's classic, Mastering The Art of French Cooking. It made me laugh out loud. If you've ever been accused of being too hard on yourself, whether or not you're interested in French cooking, you'll love Julie, and gain a warm acceptance for the Julie in you." ~~ Chapters

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Julie and Julia, the abridged version on CD
or to order your copy from Amazon.

"On the eve of my thirtieth birthday, stuck in a dead-end secretarial job, living in a hideous apartment in Long Island City, Queens, and dreading what seemed like a life of terminal mediocrity, I came up with a panicked notion - to cook through all 524 recipes of Julia Child's Mastering The Art of French Cooking, in a year, and blog about it. Julie and Julia describes my efforts to hold on to my job, marriage, and sanity while blazing a nonsensical trail toward fulfillment, with Julia leading the way." ~~ Julie Powell

"Although I have Vol. One & Two of MtAoFC, I would never have considered doing what Julie Powell did much less in one year. Loved reading about her, her husband and friends and the considerable trials she went through! Her honesty was at once appalling and refreshing." ~~ Diane

"I loved this laugh out loud book! I can't wait for the movie to come out, although I'm sure it won't do the book justice." ~~ Vanessa

"Julie & Julia was funny. Really funny. I don't usually do a lot of laughing out loud at books, and I did so several times with this one. I appreciated how candid Julie is in her writing. She writes frankly about things - wearing a corset to fit into some of her clothes, kind of enjoying killing lobsters, her sex life - that others may have omitted. It was refreshing, hopeful, and cute." ~~ Noisy Penguin

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WHISKIE from Amazon.

"A woman and her life undercover of her cookbook cooking all the recipes in Julia Child's cookbook for the blog, Julie and Julia." ~~ Christopher Lydon

(Listen to the complete live interview with Julie Powell by clicking right here.)

"I like the idea," she said to me, "that eating well is a universal right, and that you can do it in the midst of the daily Hell that most of us live, especially when you live in an outer borough of New York City."

~~ Julia Powell