I forayed into adult nonfiction for a change. I think this might be called a memoir. Yeah…that’s where it would be shelved. This is the description on the title page:
Julie and Julia 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
She did this by making all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking all in one year.
This is an amazing book. I expected it to be only about food and cooking, but it’s more of a good story and a lot of food frustrations. As a cook myself, I was drawn to the idea and searched the internet for my copy of MTAOFC. However, the idea was short lived because vegetarians and Julia Child are about as compatible as beets and peanut-butter.
This is a great read. It’s entertaining and funny as hell, and really, an unusual book. I highly recommend it. I seriously couldn’t put it down, which is not usually the case for me with any thing other than fiction. Get your copy so that Julie Powell can continue to write at home in her pajamas which she likes to do much better than being a secretary.
P.S. If this review isn’t as well done as I usually try to make them, it’s because I’m multi-tasking; listening to the Cubs/Cards game on the internet radio. GO CUBS!!!
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