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<\/a><\/p>\nTwo years ago, I brought Ms Powell\u2019s book along with me on a trip home to my parents.\u00a0 It was a quick and breezy read and I admired her challenge of working her way through 524 recipes over the course of a year.\u00a0 In fact, it prompted me to pick up my very own copy of MtAoFC (as Julie efficiently\u00a0labels it).\u00a0 It is a classic, after all, and I certainly couldn\u2019t deprive myself of yet another cookbook.\u00a0 In order to qualify for free shipping (\u201cD*mn you, Amazon!!!\u201d), I had to top up my order and selected Prud-homme\u2019s memoir of his great grand aunt Julia.<\/p>\n
\u00a0I think MtAoFC received more attention than all my other cookbooks combined.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 I sat down and read it cover to cover.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019d cook much from it, and the recipes are somewhat dated.\u00a0 But 16 pages on how to make a souffl\u00e9 was just too much enjoyment for me.\u00a0 Definitely food porn…in a literary way.\u00a0 Anyway,\u00a0the memoir was a lovely companion piece to her cookbook since it essentially documented said book\u2019s conception and birth.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know much about her before (although I could do a wicked impression), and I walked away from both books marveling at her passion, fortitude and zest.<\/p>\n
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The film is a nice tribute to both Julie and Julia, and that\u2019s exactly what it was\u2026a gentle reflection on both these women, whipping up a gastronomical storm.\u00a0 Meryl Streep really does deserve accolades for her success in channelling la Grande Gourmande.\u00a0 Read My Life in France<\/span>, though; it really deserved to have a movie all to itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No self-respecting food blogger could not write about the film Julie & Julia, even if only in passing.\u00a0 I won\u2019t actually go into \u201creview\u201d mode here.\u00a0 However, in case you might have missed it, the movie is based on two books:\u00a0 Julie & Julia:\u00a0 My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell and My Life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,7,9],"tags":[66,64,61,62,65,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crispybits.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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