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Sassy, quirky and disarmingly honest (Marie Claire )
Restores your faith in eating for pleasure (Vogue )
I savoured each dish with the same delight as the author (Sarah Vine The Times )
A gem of a book...both hilarious and touching (Glamour )
What lies at the heart is the power of food to transform the everyday act of eating into a complex and potentially life-changing experience (Guardian )
An entertaining romp portraying the joys and frustrations familiar to any ambitious domestic cook (Sunday Times )
Heartwarming...highly entertaining (Daily Mail )
Restores your faith in eating for pleasure (Vogue )
I savoured each dish with the same delight as the author (Sarah Vine The Times )
A gem of a book...both hilarious and touching (Glamour )
What lies at the heart is the power of food to transform the everyday act of eating into a complex and potentially life-changing experience (Guardian )
An entertaining romp portraying the joys and frustrations familiar to any ambitious domestic cook (Sunday Times )
Heartwarming...highly entertaining (Daily Mail )
Reads like a rip-roaringly good novel...a deliciously funny romp
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Trapped in a boring job and living in a tiny apartment in New York, Julie Powell regularly finds herself weeping on the way home from work. Then one night, through her mascara-smudged eyes, Julie notices that the few items she's grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as described in Julia Childs' legendary cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. And The Project is born.
Julie begins to cook - every one of the 524 recipes in the book, in the space of just one year. This is Julie's story, as gradually, from oeufs en cocotte to bifstek sauté au beurre, from "Bitch Rice" to preparing live lobsters, she realises that this deranged Project is changing her life. The richness of the thousands of sauces she slaves over is beginning to spread into her life, and she begins to find the joie de vivre that has been missing for too many years.
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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book having watched the film 'Julie and Julia' and loved the main characters. Amy Adams as Julie Powell was so sweet and I empathised with what she was doing in the film. The real Julie Powell though, the lady who has written this book, scares me. There is no element of sweetness about her. She doesn't focus on much of the cooking and to my horror, she is bad at it. There was something about the determination of the film Julie to keep on going and work through every recipe to detail, the book Julie gives up, substitutes ingredients and makes things very very badly. I continued to read this book to the end, hoping with each page that it would get better but for me, it didn't. I ended up getting annoyed by the writer and her self indulgent prattle, how she descibes reading the Joy of Sex as a child and compares it to MtAoFC, no way - that is just weird. She swears a lot which I don't mind except that I think it's just a lack of imagination in what to say. Overall, I felt like this book shattered my illusion of these 2 women that the film portrays. As soon as I'd seen it I came on amazon to get the book as I wanted to continue the good feelings the film gave me. My advice would be, watch the film and leave it at that. Amy Adams is lovely as Julie Powell, Meryl Streep awesome as Julia Child but the real people will grate and disappoint. Such a shame as books are normally better than the film but in this case not. I can understand now how Julia Child wanted nothing to do with Julie Powell, who would?
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I enjoyed the book enormously as I have used MTAOFC since the sixties - I'm on my second copy as the first one fell apart after many years of frequent use.
The idea of working through the whole book, cooking every single recipe, is quite remarkable & Julie Powell writes in a very easy style.
I have not made all of the recipes & of recent years have stuck to the tried & tested so this book has somewhat inspired me to return to the index & delve deeper.
I am not an afficionado of bad language but it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book - I just feel it is unnecessary.
A good read for any cooks - particularly those who have dabbled in MtAoFC.
The idea of working through the whole book, cooking every single recipe, is quite remarkable & Julie Powell writes in a very easy style.
I have not made all of the recipes & of recent years have stuck to the tried & tested so this book has somewhat inspired me to return to the index & delve deeper.
I am not an afficionado of bad language but it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book - I just feel it is unnecessary.
A good read for any cooks - particularly those who have dabbled in MtAoFC.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just like the recipes in the cookery book that is the basis for this book (and the film)this will not please everyone. A vegan friend was deeply disturbed by the various descriptions of animal carnage that litter the pages; experienced cooks and Julia Child fans alike are seemingly horrified at Julie Powell's apparent ineptitude and callous disregard for the instructions and ingredients demanded in the recipes. Personally I found the whole thing laugh out loud funny- the lobster murders in particular brought a tear to the eye (with giggles not grief)Yes Julie Powell comes across as self-absorbed, selfish, obsessive, and she swears- who doesn't these days, and at times she isn't particularly likeable but hold on a minute, doesn't that make her all the more human.I certainly haven't met any saints lately. She is clearly an intelligent woman and it's no easy thing to write yourself, warts and all. She writes with humour often at her own expense, recognising her own preoccupation with herself. It was because of this as much as in spite of it that I found the book to be very enjoyable.
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Love Julia not Julie
I can completely understand why Julia Childs did not want to meet Julie Powell because she just comes across as so whiny and needy. She really annoyed me. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Shaz
Hit and miss
The Julia parts are much more interesting than the Julie bits. However, this is a good, light read. And it does inspire one to learn a little more about Julia Child.
Published 6 months ago by Mark Hill
Disappointing
I used to love reading Julie's blog, and I'm also a fan of Julia Child. I was fascinated with the practical challenge surrounding the idea of cooking all of these recipes in just a... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Bento Lover
FAB, FAB, FAB
arrived today, am a quarter way through this book and am just loving it, i don't mind the swearing and she uses it in a comedy context. Read more
Published 10 months ago by SG
Good, but the film is better!
This book is the true story of Julie Powell, who cooked her way through a cookbook by Julia Child called "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", in a year, and wrote about it in her... Read more
Published 19 months ago by miss_spookiness
grittier than the film
I watched the film of this first, really liked it a lot and nearly didn't read the book, being put off by reveiws claiming the book isn't as good. Read more
Published 22 months ago by currer bell
Great Fun
I enjoyed this book immensely. I wasn't sure that I would. I had already seen the film of the same name and loved it, and then read Appetite for Life about Julia Childs, which I... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
Surprisingly good
I've always thought that MTAOFC was an interesting anachronism that doesn't read too well today, unlike, for example, the works of Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume. Read more
Published on 21 May 2010 by Levenax
Genuine entertainment and not spoilt by the film
I read the book straight through in two evenings. It gave an interesting insight that was quite different from but added to the film. Read more
Published on 29 April 2010 by Eddie Yacht
One Sentence Plot Summary
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A foul-mouthed, foul-minded, narcissistic, whining American secretary/wife spends one year on French cooking. Read more
A foul-mouthed, foul-minded, narcissistic, whining American secretary/wife spends one year on French cooking. Read more
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