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Julie & Julia by Julie Powell

Julie & Julia

365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

by Julie Powell
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  • Sep 1, 2005, 320 pages
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  • Sep 2006, 336 pages
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Julie Powell

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Julie Powell says... 'My answer to "what's your favorite read" changes every time I'm asked it, but I can say that as far as cookbook authors, Paul Prudhomme*, Andries de Groot and, yes, Nigella Lawson are folks I enormously admire. Elizabeth Gilbert is a fantastic writer as well as a great person, and I look forward to her next book with bated breath. I am in awe of Alice Munro. As a kid I was a bit of a sci-fi and fantasy geek, and read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's trilogy on a bi-yearly basis, and was a big fan of Pyrdain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander.'

Useful link: The Julia Child website at the Smithsonion.

*Alex Prud'homme, Paul Child's grandnephew, co-wrote Julia Child's biography.

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This "beyond the book article" relates to Julie & Julia. It originally ran in October 2005 and has been updated for the September 2006 paperback edition. Go to magazine.

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