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Julie Powell, best known as the blogger who spent a year cooking her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, released a new memoir on December 1. It’s called Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession and it details Powell’s apprenticeship with a New York butcher. During this time she was also going through a rough patch in her marriage. USA [...]
Take a look at the December book releases I think you’ll be interested in: U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton Available December 1, 2009 (Order on Amazon) From the publisher: It’s April, 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday, and she’s alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as [...]
With all the buzz surrounding the Julie & Julia movie, you probably already know the basic premise: Julie Powell, stuck in a dead-end job and approaching thirty, decides to spend a year cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Powell, who describes her secretarial job at a government agency as soul-sucking, thought cooking Julia Child’s recipes would be a [...]
With the release of the movie Julie & Julia only weeks away, author Julie Powell is busy promoting her best-selling book of the same name. She spoke to a crowd of about 50 fans who gathered at the Borders Books & Music in Birmingham, Michigan on Tuesday, July 21, and signed books afterwards. Julie & Julia is a memoir about the year Julie Powell cooked [...]
