Author:
Narrator: Julie Powell
Format: Abridged-CD, Paperback, Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Time Warner Audiobooks
Published: Sep 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Women
Retail Price: $29.98
Julie Powell set herself the daunting task of preparing all 500+ recipes in her mother's tattered copy of Julia Child's classic MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING--and to describe her experiences in a blog called 'The Julie/Julia Project.' Now that blog is a book chronicling Powell's sometimes wacky, sometimes harrowing, ultimately satisfying excursion into fine French cooking, from sweetbreads and kidneys to Gateau ' l'Orange and Clafouti. Powell never met Julia Child, but when Julia died in the course of the project, Powell grieved deeply, saying, 'She left a great six-foot-two hole in my world.