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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • ISBN-10: 031610969X
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137 of 147 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed Julie & Julia., March 31, 2007
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This review is from: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Paperback)
A friend of mine lent me Julie & Julia at a point when I needed something to cheer me up. I have to admit that few things make me more suspicious than a book that derived from a blog. I also have a pretty low tolerance for chick lit in general, and this smelled like chick lit to me.

But anyhow. Despite going into the book with poor expectations, I was pleasantly surprised. I found it well-written and it felt honest. It had several laugh-out-loud moments. Best of all, I found myself genuinely liking the narrator/author. It was good fun. And that was exactly what I wanted it to be.

Although you can get some foodie kicks from Julie & Julia, it is not really about food. Do not read the book if you are looking for technical details, deep reflection about Julia Childs and French cooking, or kitchen tips and tricks. It is not that kind of book. Think light read with cooking as a kind of character quest.

One quarrel-- in her author's note Powell declares that "sometimes she just makes stuff up". That made me less comfortable with the book, honestly. As a memoir it has a lot of charm. As a novel, it has much less interest. I am not sure why that should be the case, but it took a little bit of the shine off for me to see that note at the beginning.

Anyhow. If, like me, you are looking for some cheering up then this could be a book for you. Bonus points if you find yourself an urbanite with a foodie-wannabee cooking habit, because then the funny parts are going to be even funnier. I had to wince when remembering some of my own attempts at homemade mayonnaise. Recommended.
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112 of 127 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Despicable Book, November 7, 2007
By Jill Sim (Southwest, U.S.) - See all my reviews
If the incomparable Julia Child were alive today to witness what Ms. Powell, an egocentric, tediously narcissistic, mean-spirited (about pretty much everything), surprisingly humorless, vapid, not to mention bad wife and sister, had done in her name, she would swat Ms. Powell away with a spatula and wither this "fan" further with some carefully chosen bon mots.

The author doesn't seem to like to cook, she doesn't like food, she seems to have a strange and unconvincing fascination with Paul Child, Julia's adoring husband; yet Powell rakes her own equally adoring husband over a cheese grater in this book. Julia Child never whined; Julie Powell whines about everything -- though as far as gigs go, she's got a good one (Powell's husband generously supports her wannabe Julia Child experiment)-- and you'll find that in this book whine takes much precedence over wine.


I was so looking forward to reading this book, and hated myself reading further than learning that the author twice harvested her own eggs to pay down credit card debts. I feel downright soiled after finishing this book. I wish I could work up a smart and fair review for this book, but I absolutely despised it. I suppose my inability to curb my rage and the sense of feeling deeply bamboozled is because I AM passionate about food, and cooking, and I have profound admiration for Julia Child, and this trashy non-homage (which also deprives its reader the process of replicating the recipes to allow the author to whine even more) is a lamentable waste of lobsters and trees.

Save your money. Buy Julia Child's memoir of her life in France to read how a 'real woman' lived, loved, and cooked, and who fully deserves her dear reader's attention and respect, and not because Julia Child could cook, but also because she could WRITE.

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186 of 217 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Powell's Souffle Falls Flat, June 23, 2009
By Lindsay Johnson (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Paperback)
Many a blog turned book falls into the "nothing new" trap; what we get on paper is just a reproduction of what we got on the screen. In her attempt to escape this pitfall, Julie Powell goes to the opposite extreme and tries to do way too much. The premise lured me in: approaching 30 and flitting from one temp job to the next, Powell attempts to do the improbable, tackle all of the 524 recipes found in the first volume of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in one calendar year. What could have been an interesting story of using a culinary challenge to provide structure and direction to an otherwise chaotic New York lifestyle turns into a book with an identity crisis. Part memoir about family and friends and life in New York, part story of getting closer to Julia Child through her iconic cookbook, part recounting the blogging experience near the time of its inception, part fictional re-imagining of the relationship between Paul and Julia Child - the book felt like a shouting match between styles and genres each fighting fiercely for attention.

Was the book diverting? Yes, and sometimes it was hilarious. However, there are a number of books out there that successfully do what Powell is attempting here. If you have your heart set on reading this book, go for it. However, I would also like to offer the following recommendations depending on what drove you to look at this book up in the first place:

If you are interested in Julia Child and how she (and others) have influenced American cuisine, I suggest The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution.

If you are looking for a food memoir, someone learning about cuisine to better understand themselves and a culture, try Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China.

If New York is the draw, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise is written by the former restaurant critic of The New York Times and includes stories of restaurants (with reviews), home cooking, and some tempting recipes.

If you are looking for great, laugh out loud memoir that actually pulls off the blog-to-book transition, but does not have much to do with food, pick up Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office

There has been a huge surge in the publication of food-related books over the past few years and many of them are excellent, but "Julie and Julia" is just not one of them.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Narcissistic Blather
What a self-involved twit the author is. She catalogs her drunken stupidity and her friends' adultery while pretending cooking Julia Child's recipes is her "raison d'etre. Read more
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I saw the movie, read Julia's book "My Life in France" (wonderful book), purchased MtAoFC (both volumes), then purchased this book. Read more
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Bashing this book seems to be something of an obsession for some people. This may be one of the few cases where I've read so many people insisting that the movie is better than... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Ms Powell, your fifteen minutes are up
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1.0 out of 5 stars Converting a blog into a book is not as easy as it looks, is it Julie?
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