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Julie and Julia : my year of cooking dangerously Julie Powell.

By: Material type: TextTextNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009Edition: First mass market editionDescription: xiv, 362, 13 pages ; 17 cmISBN:
  • 9780316042512
Other title:
  • Julie & Julia [Cover title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TX 649.P66  .A3 2009
Contents:
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes -- Joy of cooking -- You have to break a few eggs -- Hacking the marrow out of life -- ... To make an omelette -- Disaster/dinner party, dinner party/disaster -- The law of diminishing returns -- They shoot lobsters, don't they? -- The proof is in the plumbing -- Sweet smell of failure -- Flaming crepes! -- Time to move to Weehawken.
Summary: Julie Powell is a bored, 30-year-old secretary living in a rundown apartment in Queens. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, so 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. But she comes to realize there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
American Learning Resource American Learning Resource Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center TX 649.P66 .J944 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 9ALRC201101401
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Originally published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2005 under the title "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."

Includes an excerpt from Cleaving: a story of marriage, meat, and obsession by Julie Powell.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes -- Joy of cooking -- You have to break a few eggs -- Hacking the marrow out of life -- ... To make an omelette -- Disaster/dinner party, dinner party/disaster -- The law of diminishing returns -- They shoot lobsters, don't they? -- The proof is in the plumbing -- Sweet smell of failure -- Flaming crepes! -- Time to move to Weehawken.

Julie Powell is a bored, 30-year-old secretary living in a rundown apartment in Queens. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, so 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. But she comes to realize there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye.

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