Julie Powell
Julie Powell
Julie Powell, née Fosteris an American author best known for her book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, and a subsequent movie...
ProfessionBlogger
Date of Birth20 April 1973
CityAustin, TX
food
She doesn't like to use a food processor.
figuring finding learn living lost nearly painted project trying understood until
I was painted into a corner. I was completely lost -- I didn't know what I was going to do. I wanted to learn to cook. ... It wasn't until the project was nearly done that I really understood that what I was trying to do was figuring out a new way of living and finding new experiences in life.
tools way doe
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.
simple potatoes easy
Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.
challenges cooking feelings
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
fighting eggs atoms
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.
doors imagine
Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.
nice belief sanity
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
food sound crepes
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.