I don't recall what corner of the Web I was trolling-- was it really just a couple of days ago?-- when a link brought me to The Julie/Julia Project, but since then I've fallen headlong down the rabbit hole. In 2002-2003, New Yorker Julie Powell decided to work her way through Julia Child's seminal Mastering the Art of French Cooking, jumping among chapters but cooking through each recipe in each chapter front-to-back. 536 recipes in 365 days. And more butter than humans were meant to consume in a year.
What a fabulous concept.
Many of us have picked up a cookbook and, enchanted by the delights it promised, thought about how great it would be to cook through it cover to cover. But to actually do it-- and on such a harrowing timetable-- is madness. Sheer madness. To do it and blog about it is genius. Our good fortune is that Julie Powell knows her way around Strunk and White. Her record of her year cooking in the shadow of Julia Child is turning out to be a great read, and I'm only a few weeks in. Granted, the project ended a while ago and calling your attention to it now is a bit like, in �ber-geeky game show parlance, breathlessly reporting that Chuck Woolery has left his hosting gig on Wheel of Fortune. Old news. But like me many of you are foodies, and for foodies the Julie/Julia project is inspirational.
So many sauces... so little time...
Posted by Peter at October 1, 2004 3:18 PMWait... Chuck isn't there? The next thing you know, the ceramic dalmation will be gone too, huh?
*snide grin*
Posted by: Rialtus on October 4, 2004 11:33 AM