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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
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Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 07, 2006
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Studio: Back Bay Books
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Editorial Review:
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Can't quite put my finger on it
I must confess up front that, whilst I give Julia Child major props for her life and her work, I'm not a big fan. This fact notwithstanding, I dove into this book over a vacation weekend and, though I enjoyed it, I wasn't as blown away as I had hoped. I thought many parts were laugh-out-loud funny and her use of obscenities I found quite natural, not at all forced, and I took no offense. I felt a bit squicked out with some of the sexual references but only because it was a work of fact, not fiction, ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Book for Foodies
I love to read books about "food." It plays such an important part of our lives and tells so much about us. This book was more than just about food, but about a universal feeling of inadequacy that we can all identify with. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading.
Rating:  - Just keep trying. Eventually you'll figure out how to master mayonnaise.
I rounded up. I'dve gone with a 4.5., mainly because I think that some points were belabored, but it was a hysterical memoir filled with mistakes and blunders, cursing and all-in-all a wonderful narrator. I think one of the paragraphs towards the end summed it up for me: "Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking ... Read More
Rating: - Love Julie!
This lady is funny, quick witted, especially insightful and brutally honest. And I'm not talking about Julia Childs. I found this book belly-laugh funny. Even if you don't like to cook, it's a good read.
Rating:  - Yummy, then not
This blog/book is like a bag of Cheetos. It's so yummy and cheesy and you just can't stop and you really should stop and you kind of slow down and then you feel full and then you have another handful and then you fold up the bag and start to put it where you can't reach it and then you eat another handful and feel kind of yucky and then you wish you'd never seen those Cheetos ever because they weren't really that good to begin with. You don't eat Cheetos again for a long time. This book is a tidbit, not worth ... Read More
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