365 days, 524 recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
I owed Joe an apology after reading this book (past tense because I've already delivered it). I had ridden him pretty hard about what I had classified as "stunt" books. While I still maintain that the best ones are about challenges that people undertook without the book deal in place already, I do have to admit that a good stunt can still resonate pretty deeply.
I'm pretty sure that I saw Julie Powell doing a guest judge spot on Iron Chef America and she seemed like she'd be cool to eat with. Probably cool to cook with too.
I found out that this book is being made into a movie to be released in 2009 starring Amy Adams. I'm really ambivalent about this. There's a growing number of movies that are based on "stunt" (sorry, Julie) books (mainly thinking of Yes Man) and, while I'm happy that movies are turning to print for story ideas again, I can't help but feel disappointed when a book that I enjoyed is adapted. To be honest though, there are scenes in this book that I can see really well on screen. I don't think that I'd see the movie but there weren't nearly enough explosions in the book to make it a movie that I would enjoy.
I personally love the process of cooking, I'm fascinated by arcane knowledge and tempted by complexity so I was right there with her when she contemplated a five page recipe. Unfortunately for me, I was also right there with her when she got the news of Julia's death in 2004 (I remembered it).
Ultimately, her imaginary version of Julia Child is pretty close to my imaginary version of Julia Child and I'm glad that she threw herself at this challenge. Challenge is a better word than stunt, don't you think?
I owed Joe an apology after reading this book (past tense because I've already delivered it). I had ridden him pretty hard about what I had classified as "stunt" books. While I still maintain that the best ones are about challenges that people undertook without the book deal in place already, I do have to admit that a good stunt can still resonate pretty deeply.I'm pretty sure that I saw Julie Powell doing a guest judge spot on Iron Chef America and she seemed like she'd be cool to eat with. Probably cool to cook with too.
I found out that this book is being made into a movie to be released in 2009 starring Amy Adams. I'm really ambivalent about this. There's a growing number of movies that are based on "stunt" (sorry, Julie) books (mainly thinking of Yes Man) and, while I'm happy that movies are turning to print for story ideas again, I can't help but feel disappointed when a book that I enjoyed is adapted. To be honest though, there are scenes in this book that I can see really well on screen. I don't think that I'd see the movie but there weren't nearly enough explosions in the book to make it a movie that I would enjoy.
I personally love the process of cooking, I'm fascinated by arcane knowledge and tempted by complexity so I was right there with her when she contemplated a five page recipe. Unfortunately for me, I was also right there with her when she got the news of Julia's death in 2004 (I remembered it).
Ultimately, her imaginary version of Julia Child is pretty close to my imaginary version of Julia Child and I'm glad that she threw herself at this challenge. Challenge is a better word than stunt, don't you think?
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