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| Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously | 
 enlarge | Author: Julie Powell
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 82619
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0141018178
EAN: 9780141018171
ASIN: 0141018178
Publication Date: February 22, 2007
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Condition: Very good clean condition. Text clean. Pages lightly tanned. Faint crease to spine. Light handling wear to page edges. Small scuff to base of spine.
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 Scrumptious! May 13, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
'Without the project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting towards frosted hair and menthol addiction.'
Julie Powell is in a mundane and dead-end job with a government agency when she decides to inject a bit of a challenge into her life. Her aim is to cook the 524 recipes from Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cookery' within twelve months. The book includes such wonders as: eggs poached in red wine, various food stuffs suspended in aspic, 'B*tch rice', many lobster recipes and something unspeakable made with marrowbone.
I loved this book. Powell's sense of humour and determination make it a wonderful read. You'll cheer her triumphs and commiserate over her failures (and there are many!)
Highly recommended.
 More substantial than I thought April 25, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book as it was the next title for my reading group, and I expected something light and frothy, a souffle perhaps, or for those who can't cook, like me, angel delight (an instant powdered pudding).
At first I found the protaganist irritating. She is very scathing, swears a lot and throws things. After a while this actually becomes rather endearing as you find yourself supporting her madcap venture to cook every recipe in an incredibly complicated French recipe book within a year. The book moves at a fast pace, and is both entertaining and completely revolting (unless you like reading about dissecting live lobsters and tunnelling through bones). I would have liked to have had more excerpts from her blog included though.
Conclusion: a fun read for anyone who loves to cook but struggles.
I didn't want it to end!! September 12, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
My friend lent me this book having read about it in a newspaper - I'd never heard of it, and was sceptical about the whole concept. I was completely wrong. I become so utterly absorbed in this book - I love cooking and admired Julie trying literally everthing that was thrown at her - if I'd taken on this challenge, I'm sure I would have cheated loads more than she did.
I laughed out loud several times which is not something I often do with books, I loved that you really got a sense of what a completely normal person Julie is.
I looked up her actual blog when I was halfway through, and was pleased to see the original is still kicking around, even though the 'new' blog has a new home.
I just hope Julie takes up a new challenge and writes another book, because it would be a sad loss if this is all we hear from her.
for those times when choosing dinner is the most fulfilling thing in your life August 23, 2006
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Yes this book is very personal and certainly won't have universal appeal. But I enjoyed it a lot.
For me, sometimes what you do in your kitchen provides the most fulfilment (when your job is crap and life-direction is in short supply). Julie Powell is really good on this stuff, and on what food can mean to your life - when a potato is not just a potato, when eating a good steak dinner is what your soul needs on the anniversary of Sept 11. If you share this approach - food is lot lot more than just calories - you might get a kick out of this book.
Mind you, I did get a bit fed up with "and then the food processor went wrong and I burst into tears" tantrums. And I wished there were some recipes too - I really want to try some of these now, better add the inspiration to my amazon wish list I guess. Hence, 4 not 5 stars.
I'm re-reading it again at the moment, and getting even more out of it 2nd time around...
inspirational, personal read June 13, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really got a kick out of this book - yes, sometimes the American dialect had me re-reading a sentence twice, but what an inspiration. I love a woman who drinks and swears like a sailor, can write with integrity, and is a Democrat to boot. I guess if you fall into this category, you'll love it as well. If not, you'll have the same views as her bleader, Clarence.
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