the carolyn project

I love to read.  Mostly nonfiction-- travel books, cooking memoirs, biographies of interesting people... I'm all over it.  One of my unofficial goals in life (why stress by making it official?) is to consistently read a book a week.  It happens as often as not, and it always happens when I have a good book.

I just finished Julie Powell's "Julie & Julia" yesterday and thought I would share it with you since it's food-related.  It's a kitchen memoir of an unhappy secretary who decides to cook every recipe from Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in one year.  That's 524 recipes in 365 days.  The book, based on her project's blog, covers many of her culinary struggles and successes, as well as how Powell's life changed that year.  It was fun to read!  Her adventures in the kitchen with Julia Child's old-fashioned recipes are so different from my experiences in the kitchen... and can you imagine having to cook that many recipes??  I can barely manage dinner from scratch three times a week.  Okay, let's be honest-- two times a week.

Also, in Googling this book, I've just discovered that it's going to be released as a movie this year, starring Amy Adams.  Yes, she was the one from "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day", which I loved.

Of course, this book was published in 2005, so this all might be old news for you.  In that case, I better start reading faster in order to keep up...