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Julie $ Julia and Other Culinary Memoirs
The movie Julie & Julia, based on the memoir by Julie Powell, 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 (Find this book in our catalog), opens this Friday, August 7.
In the movie (starring Amy Adams and Meryls Streep) and the book Julie Powell decides to make her life more interesting by cooking in a single year all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Find this book in our catalog).
If you enjoy reading about cooking, culinary memoirs, and the art of living, you may enjoy these books in our HCPL catalog:
The tenth muse : my life in food by Judith Jones "Living in Paris after World War II, Judith Jones broke free of the bland American food she had been raised on and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States... she published Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. A new world now opened up to Jones..."
Trail of crumbs : hunger, love, and the search for home : a memoir by Kim Sunee "Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes, this is a unique memoir about the search for identity through love, hunger, and food."
Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution by Thomas McNamee "...in 1971, in a corner of Berkeley, California, a young Francophile named Alice Waters opened a small counterculture restaurant for her friends called Chez Panisse and launched an entirely new way of thinking about and serving food in America."
Bon Appétit, Y'all : recipes and stories from three generations of Southern cooking by Virginia Willis Georgia cook, Virginia Willis attended the prestigious French cooking school Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne.
Labels: cookery - French, culinary memoirs, food - memoir, Julie and Julia, women cooks - anecdotes
posted by Elizabeth on 8/05/2009
