Julie and Julia

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With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul.Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul sucking secretarial job that s going nowhere She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment She will take her mother s dog eared copy of Julia Child s 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes In the span of one year At first she thinks it will be easy But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier potato soup into the complicated realm of aspics and cr pes, she realizes there s to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye With Julia s stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads She sends her husband on late night runs for yet butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine She has eclipsed her life s ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance. Best Download [ Julie and Julia ] author [ Julie Powell ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr it seemed so simple, and so brilliant and so the perfect type of book for me, i remember thinking as i perused i forget what, probably the new york times and saw a reference to julie powell s julie and julia project.a woman who dedicated her year to learning how to cook.like me i hoped for inspiration for my writing, for my cooking, for ideas that i could incorporate into both.i immediately ordered a copy or maybe i went straight to borders after work i started reading the night i got it it seemed so simple, and so brilliant and so the perfect type of book for me, i remember thinking as i perused i forget what, probably the new york times and saw a reference to julie powell s julie and julia project.a woman who dedicated her year to learning ...I can see how this book was a successful blog It sa series of snacks than a grand a la carte meal in a French restaurant The author s endless repetition of her hatred for Republicans, her job as a secretary and the use of her favourite words fuck and suck, neither of them used sexually, probably give you the flavour of this slight one note book A snarky, sarky, endlessly whining personality that is amusing to read on a daily blog, gets a bit much in a full length book Reading it is a b I can see how this book was a successful blog It sa series of snacks than a grand a la carte meal in a French restaurant The author s endless repetition of her hatred for Republicans, her job as a secretary and the use of her favourite words fuck and suck, neither of them used sexually, probably give you the flavour of this slight one note book A snarky, sarky, endlessly whining personality that is amusing to read on a daily blog, gets a bit much in a full length book Reading it is a bit like having to eat all your meals at McDonalds every day from Sunday for a week By Wednesday, you d long for a salad and maybe a refreshing sorbet, but it would yet another ersatz burger with underdone and slightly wilted fries.Julia Child is, for non Americans, not muchthan a name than some people might recognise but the imagined episodes of her life in the book are teasing and delicious She was a very unusual woman, farinteresting than the author herself but the a...Author Julia Powell is a mix of many people From page one, when she tells us she sold her own eggs to pay off credit debt, she is much like the dreaded person seated next to you on a long haul flight that proceeds to tell you their life story in a matter of minutes She is also the TMI girl that we all know, whose narrative describes the smell of her burps and piss, bitches incessantly about her job and Republicans, describes smelly cocks, drinks too many cocktails, tells us she sleeps with her Author Julia Powell is a mix of many people From page one, when she tells us she sold her own eggs to pay off credit debt, she is much like the dreaded person seated next to you on a long haul flight that proceed...In the immortal words of Michael Bluth I don t know what I expected I knew what I was getting into with this, I really did It is a well documented fact that Julie Powell is a delusional asshole if you need a good laugh, look at the reviews for Cleaving, her second book they all essentially boil down to Wow, so turn...I love the concept, I really do not so much the finished product Had she not made the fuuny reference to my favorite line in Casablanca near the begininning of the book, I never would have been able to finish it The thought of finding another gem like that made me stick with it even when I wanted to throw Julie out of a twenty story window The whiny, self absorbed, melodramtic, narcissistic, trite yet on occasion deliciously funny Julie Powell decides to take up a project to add meaning to I love the concept, I really do not so much the finished product Had she not made the fuuny reference to my favorite line in Casablanca near the begininning of the book, I never would have been able to finish it The thought of finding another gem like that made me stick with it even when I wanted to throw Julie out of a twenty story window The whiny, self absorbed, melodramtic, narcissistic, trite yet on occasion deliciously funny Julie Powell decides to take up a project to add meaning to her life, or at least to distract herself from dealing with it She...Completely and utterly disappointing.I was so in love with the idea that Julie came up with to recreate each of the 524 recipes in Julia Child s Mastering the Art of French Cooking I never had read her blog before, and my expectations for the book were high.Unfortunately, Julie is a completely repulsive, unappealing and vulgar human being Her self deprecating humor, was it didn t make me find her charmingly witty rather, I just believed what she was telling me and decided that she was i Completely and utterly disappointing.I was so in love with the idea that Julie came up with to recreate each of the 524 recipes in Julia Child s Mastering the Art of French Cooking I never had read her blog before, and my expectations for the book were high.Unfortunately, Julie is a completely repulsive, unappealing and vulgar human being Her self deprecating humor, was it didn t make me find her charmingly witty rather, I just believed wh...I read The Scavengers Guide to Haute Cuisine, and I really liked it I figured this book would be along the same lines Yeah, well, it wasn t Instead of a book about cooking, it was a book about a whiny, pseudo intellectual woman who tries to cook because her life is otherwise crappy Please tell me how cooking an entire Julia Child cookbook will improve your life Actually, don t, because that is the premise for this book and it sucked.Oh, and reading about her husband was cringe worthy This I read The Scavengers Gu...Oh Jesus Bear with me because this is going to be long.Mrs Julie Powell The woman, the legend The horror tale The first thing you have to know about her is she s not like other women, she reads books According to that logic, this entire website constitutes an anomaly in the Venn diagram of women everywhere, so take that as you will.She s one of the most self absorbed people I ve ever had the displeasure of coming in contact with and on top of that she s a disgusting slob Powell repeate Oh Jesus Bear with ...Julie disappointed me Her tone was tired I ve rassled too many self loathing Gen Xers who think that airing their dirty laundry is fresh and shocking it s not ever heard of reality TV it s merely degrading if it s dime store therapy you re seeking via the blogosphere, good luck getting stable, coherent advice from your comments section Additionally, she thought insulting her husband was funny, admi...I think there s an unfortunate trend that people follow these days, particularly women, to verbally criticize themselves in a hyper self aware manner, as if recounting all of their faults real or imagined will not only amuse the listener, but prove that they are stoic even good hud about being the biggest, fattest, ugliest, ding battiest failures to ever grace the earth Doesn t he get it Doesn t he understand that if I don t get through the whole book in a year then this whole thing will I think there s an unfortunate trend that people follow these days, particularly women, to verbally criticize themselves in a hyper self aware manner, as if recounting all of their faults real or imagined will not only amuse the listener, but prove that they are stoic even good hud about bein...

Julie and Julia
  • English
  • 18 October 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 310 pages
  • 031610969X
  • Julie Powell
  • Julie and Julia